Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 22

But when the receipt was sought for--the production of which would have enabled the bridegroom to claim the youth in question as his slave--it could not be found; a certain devil had carried it off, and refused to say where he had hidden it.

Who acts: devil · What happens: seek, enable, claim, not find, carry off, refuse · To what, where: receipt, bridegroom, youth, question, certain devil · 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 (devil), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 sought	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 receipt	det
4	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sought	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sought	aux:pass
6	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 sought	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 production	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 production	det
10	production	production	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sought	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 enabled	obl
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 enabled	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 enabled	aux
15	enabled	enable	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 production	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridegroom	det
17	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enabled	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 claim	mark
19	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 enabled	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 claim	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 question	case
23	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 claim	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 slave	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 slave	nmod:poss
26	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 claim	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 sought	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj:pass
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 found	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 carried	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 devil	det
35	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 devil	amod
36	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carried	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 carried	aux
38	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 carried	obj
40	off	off	ADP	_	38 carried	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 refused	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 refused	cc
43	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 carried	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 say	mark
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 refused	xcomp
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 hidden	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hidden	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 hidden	aux
49	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 say	ccomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hidden	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past · passive		the receipt		the production obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	enable	would · perfect		the bridegroom		of the production	tree rules
3	claim speech: other	to-infinitive		the youth	question	as bridegroom's slave	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
4	not find	could · passive		receipt			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	carry off	past · perfect · passive		a certain devil			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Value
6	refuse	past					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	hide	past · perfect	devil	receipt			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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