Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 2

One day when he was engaged in the pursuit of game, a well-dressed man met him and said,

Who acts: dressed man · What happens: engage, dress, meet, say, pursue · To what, where: man, pursuit, Lake, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressed man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 engaged	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 engaged	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux:pass
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 day	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pursuit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pursuit	det
9	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 game	case
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pursuit	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 dressed	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
16	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 met	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		man		in the pursuit of game goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in pursuit=Goal
2	dress	participle				well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet	past	a dressed man	Lake	day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	a dressed man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	pursue			game			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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