Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 57

And indeed it was no subject for jesting; he had been away from home three whole years, and yet it seemed to him that he had not in all spent more than twenty-four hours with the devils.

Who acts: silver, subject, youth, it · What happens: be, jest, seem, have, spend · To what, where: subject, home, youth

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 (silver, subject, youth, it), 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	_	6 subject	cc
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 subject	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 subject	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 subject	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 subject	det
6	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 jesting	mark
8	jesting	jest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 subject	acl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 away	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 away	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 away	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 away	cop
13	away	away	ADV	_	8 jesting	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 away	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 seemed	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 away	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seemed	advcl
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 hours	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	38 hours	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 hours	det
32	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 hours	amod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 four	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	33 more	fixed
35	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 four	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 twenty	punct
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hours	nummod
38	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 devils	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 devils	det
41	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hours	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 subject	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	silver	no subject				indeed property	tree rules
2	jest speech: other	gerund	no subject not said here						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	youth			home	year	away property	tree rules
4	seem	past	it		youth		yet		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	youth				hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spend	participle							vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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