Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 21

While the consequent revelry was in progress, Satan offered to present to the bridegroom a receipt which a father had given to the devils when he sold them his son.

Who acts: consequent revelry, Satan, father · What happens: be, offer, present, give, sell · To what, where: progress, receipt, bridegroom, devils, employers

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 (consequent revelry, Satan, father), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 progress	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 revelry	det
3	consequent	consequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 revelry	amod
4	revelry	revelry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 progress	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 progress	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 progress	case
7	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offered	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 progress	punct
9	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 offered	nsubj
10	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 present	mark
12	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 offered	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 bridegroom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bridegroom	det
15	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 receipt	det
17	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 given	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 father	det
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 receipt	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 devils	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 devils	det
25	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 given	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sold	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sold	nsubj
28	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 given	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sold	obj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sold	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the consequent revelry			progress	tree rules
2	offer	past	Satan				tree rules
3	present not said to happen	to-infinitive	Satan not said here	a receipt	the bridegroom		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent receipt=Theme to bridegroom=Recipient
4	give	past · perfect	a father	a receipt	the devils		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to devil=Recipient
5	sell	past	father	employers = employer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient son=Theme

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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