Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 24

Now there was a hut in the forest not far off, and thither it chanced that an old beggar came one night, and lay down to rest on the stove.

Who acts: hut, old beggar · What happens: be, come, lay down, rest · To what, where: stove

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 (hut, old beggar), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chanced	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hut	nmod
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 off	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 off	advmod
11	off	off	ADV	_	8 forest	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chanced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chanced	cc
14	thither	thither	ADV	_	16 chanced	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chanced	nsubj
16	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beggar	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beggar	amod
20	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 chanced	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 night	nummod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lay	cc
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 chanced	parataxis
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 lay	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rest	mark
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lay	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 stove	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stove	det
32	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hut			chance, thither property	tree rules
2	come	past	a old beggar		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive		the stove			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stove=Location

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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