Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 97

After he had heard this explanation, "the grandfather acknowledged that the little devil was in the right, and ordered him to be set free.

Who acts: soldier, grandfather, little devil · What happens: hear, acknowledge, be, order · To what, where: explanation, right, soldier

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, grandfather, little devil), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 heard	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 acknowledged	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 explanation	det
6	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 acknowledged	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandfather	det
10	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acknowledged	nsubj
11	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 right	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 devil	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 devil	amod
15	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 right	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 right	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 right	det
19	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acknowledged	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ordered	cc
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 acknowledged	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	27 free	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 free	cop
26	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 free	amod
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ordered	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 acknowledged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	soldier	this explanation				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer explanation=Stimulus
2	acknowledge in a quote	past	the grandfather					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	the little devil			the right		tree rules
4	order in a quote	past	the grandfather not said here		soldier			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the grandfather not said here				free property	tree rules

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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