Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 159
[36] So he went to his friend the Tartar, and besought him to lend him some money.
Who acts: Russian · What happens: go, beseech, lend · To what, where: 36, Russian, money
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 2 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 went | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 4 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tartar | det |
| 11 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 besought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 besought | cc |
| 14 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 besought | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lend | mark |
| 17 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 besought | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lend | obj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 money | det |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lend | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Russian | 36 | to Russian's friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | beseech | past | Russian not said here | Russian | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lend | to-infinitive | Russian not said here | some money | Russian | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=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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