Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 80

Thus in a story from the Tambof Government, Zachary the Unlucky is sent by the tailor, his master, to fetch a fiddle from a wolf-fiend.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: send, fetch · To what, where: Unlucky, fiddle, wolf fiend

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 (tailor), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	14 sent	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thus	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 Government	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Government	det
7	Tambof	Tambof	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Government	compound
8	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Zachary	punct
10	Zachary	Zachary	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Government	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Unlucky	det
12	Unlucky	Unlucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sent	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sent	aux:pass
14	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 tailor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tailor	det
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 master	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 master	nmod:poss
20	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tailor	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fetch	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fetch	mark
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sent	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fiddle	det
25	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fetch	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 fiend	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fiend	det
28	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fiend	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wolf	punct
30	fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fetch	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive	the tailor	the Unlucky				thus property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the tailor not said here	a fiddle		a wolf fiend			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme from fiend=Source

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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