Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 6

And in the bath-room he was served by a young man who, when the bath was over, fell at his feet, saying,

Who acts: young man · What happens: serve, be, fall, say · To what, where: man, bath room, feet · 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 (young 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 served	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
4	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bath	punct
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 served	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 served	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 served	aux:pass
9	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 served	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 over	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 over	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 over	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bath	det
18	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 over	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 over	cop
20	over	over	ADV	_	13 man	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 served	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fell	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive	a young man	man	the bath room		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in room=Location
2	is	past	a young man			over property	tree rules
3	fall	past	a young man not said here		man's feet		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a young man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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