Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 77

While the preparations are being made for the marriage, the soldier arrives at the end of his term of service to "the little devil" who had hired him, and from whom he had received his wealth in return for his abstinence and cleanliness.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: make, arrive, hire, receive, term · To what, where: preparations, end, little devil, wealth, return, service

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 (soldier), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 preparations	det
3	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marriage	det
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrives	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soldier	det
12	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrives	nsubj
13	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrives	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 term	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 term	nmod:poss
19	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 service	case
21	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 term	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	30 hired	mark
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 hired	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 devil	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 devil	amod
26	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hired	nsubj:pass
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 hired	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 hired	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hired	aux
30	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arrives	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hired	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 received	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 received	cc
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 whom	case
35	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 received	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 received	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 received	aux
38	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 made	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wealth	nmod:poss
40	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 received	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 return	case
42	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 received	obl
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 abstinence	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 abstinence	nmod:poss
45	abstinence	abstinence	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 return	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 cleanliness	cc
47	cleanliness	cleanliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 abstinence	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the preparations			for the marriage	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for marriage=Asset
2	arrive	present	the soldier			at the end of soldier's term of service		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hire	past · perfect · passive		the little devil				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
4	receive	past · perfect	soldier	soldier's wealth	return for soldier's abstinence and cleanliness			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from whom=Source
5	term		soldier	service				nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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