Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

The peasant explained that he had found him fifteen years ago in a corn-kiln, with strange and rich clothing on him; and by every sign he was the Tsar’s own son.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: explain, find, be · To what, where: boy, corn kiln, own son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (peasant), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explained	nsubj
3	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 found	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 explained	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ago	obl:unmarked
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 found	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 kiln	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kiln	det
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kiln	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 corn	punct
16	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clothing	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 clothing	case
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothing	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rich	cc
21	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 strange	conj
22	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clothing	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 son	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 son	cc
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 sign	case
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 sign	det
29	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 son	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 son	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 son	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Tsar	det
33	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 son	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Tsar	case
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 son	amod
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explained	vocative
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	the peasant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	past · perfect	peasant	boy	a corn kiln	with strange clothing on boy; ago property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	is a	past	peasant	the Tsar's own son		by every sign; the Tsar nmod:poss	tree 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 57