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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 55

So fifteen years went by, until at last the Tsar received news that in a certain village a peasant had found a child who was a wonder for his beauty and his cleverness.

Who acts: fifteen years, last Tsar, child · What happens: go by, receive, find, be · To what, where: news, peasant, certain village, wonder

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (fifteen years, last Tsar, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnummodnsubjoblpunctmarkcaseamoddetnsubjconjobjobjcasedetamodobldetnsubj:passauxacl:relcldetobjnsubjcopdetapposcasenmod:possnmodccnmod:possconjpunctrootSoADVfifteenNUMyearsNOUNwentVERBbyADP,PUNCTuntilSCONJatADPlastADJtheDETTsarPROPNreceivedVERBnewsNOUNthatPRONinADPaDETcertainADJvillageNOUNaDETpeasantNOUNhadAUXfoundVERBaDETchildNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXaDETwonderNOUNforADPhisPRONbeautyNOUNandCCONJhisPRONclevernessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 wentadvmod
2fifteenfifteenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 yearsnummod
3yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5bybyADP_4 wentobl
6,,PUNCT_12 receivedpunct
7untiluntilSCONJ_12 receivedmark
8atatADP_9 lastcase
9lastlastADJDegree=Pos11 Tsaramod
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Tsardet
11TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing12 receivednsubj
12receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
13newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing12 receivedobj
14thatthatPRONPronType=Rel22 foundobj
15ininADP_18 villagecase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 villagedet
17certaincertainADJDegree=Pos18 villageamod
18villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing22 foundobl
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 peasantdet
20peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing22 foundnsubj:pass
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 foundaux
22foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 newsacl:relcl
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 childdet
24childchildNOUNNumber=Sing22 foundobj
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel28 wondernsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 wondercop
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 wonderdet
28wonderwonderNOUNNumber=Sing24 childappos
29forforADP_31 beautycase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 beautynmod:poss
31beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing28 wondernmod
32andandCCONJ_34 clevernesscc
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 clevernessnmod:poss
34clevernessclevernessNOUNNumber=Sing31 beautyconj
35..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go bypastfifteen yearsvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2receivepastthe last Tsarnewsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
3findpast · perfect · passivea peasanta certain villagenews obj; a child objtree rules
4is apasta childa wonderfor peasant's beauty and peasant's clevernesstree rules

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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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