Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 18

When his son had reached man's estate, the peasant saw it was necessary to find him a bride, so he set out to seek one among "his friends the devils."

Who acts: peasant · What happens: reach, see, be, find, set out, seek · To what, where: son, peasant, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	advcl
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 estate	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 necessary	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 necessary	cop
15	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 necessary	csubj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bride	det
20	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 set	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 seek	mark
27	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	xcomp
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 seek	obj
29	among	among	ADP	_	32 friends	case
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 friends	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seek	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 devils	det
34	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 friends	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect · passive		peasant's son		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary estate=Theme
2	see	past	the peasant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past			necessary property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		peasant		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme bride=Attribute
5	set out	past	peasant			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	seek	to-infinitive	peasant not said here	one	among peasant's friends and the devils	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme among friend=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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