Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 16

[486] A certain peasant, it relates, was so poor that, in order to save himself from starvation, he took to sorcery.

Who acts: teller, 486, peasant · What happens: relate, be, save, take · To what, where: peasant, starvation

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, 486, peasant), 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	_	2 486	punct
2	486	486	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 poor	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 486	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peasant	amod
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 486	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 relates	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 relates	nsubj
9	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 486	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 relates	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poor	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 poor	advmod
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 save	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 save	punct
16	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 save	mark
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 in	fixed
18	to	to	PART	_	19 save	mark
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 poor	advcl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 save	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 starvation	case
22	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 save	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poor	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 sorcery	case
27	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	present	teller				vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	486 a certain peasant			poor property	tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive	486 a certain peasant not said here	peasant	starvation		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from starvation=Source
4	take	past	peasant			to sorcery result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sorcery=Result

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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