Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 33

"I have merchants paying me a visit," says the priest, "and even without them there's but little room in the house."

Who acts: priest, merchants, little room · What happens: have, pay, say, be · To what, where: merchants, priest, house · 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 (priest, merchants, little room), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 merchants	acl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 paying	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 visit	det
8	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 priest	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 priest	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 's	cc
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 them	advmod
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 's	obl
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 's	expl
21	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 room	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 room	amod
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 's	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 's	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the priest = priest	merchants				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Patient
2	pay in a quote	gerund	merchants not said here		the priest = priest			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset
3	say speech: assert	present	the priest					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	little room			the house; there	without people	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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