Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 122

The rest of the story tells how the imp taught Isidore to make corn-brandy, and worked for him a long time faithfully.

Who acts: rest, imp · What happens: tell, teach, make, work · To what, where: Isidore, corn brandy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, imp), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 taught	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 imp	det
9	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taught	nsubj
10	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	ccomp
11	Isidore	Isidore	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taught	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 taught	xcomp
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brandy	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 corn	punct
16	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 worked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 worked	cc
19	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 worked	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worked	obl:unmarked
25	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 worked	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the rest of the story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	teach speech: other	past	the imp		Isidore			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent isidore=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make	to-infinitive	the imp not said here	corn brandy				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brandy=Product
4	work	past	the rest of the story not said here			time	for imp; faithfully property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

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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