Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 25

The daughter ran round to all her neighbors, begging them to come and help her to wash the old woman, and meantime the little granddaughter was left all alone in the cottage.

Who acts: daughter, WITCH · What happens: run, beg, come, help, wash, leave · To what, where: daughter, WITCH, old woman, meantime, cottage

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 (daughter, WITCH), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 neighbors	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 neighbors	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbors	nmod:poss
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begging	punct
10	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begging	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begging	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 help	cc
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wash	mark
18	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 help	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wash	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 left	cc
24	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	nsubj:pass
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 granddaughter	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 granddaughter	amod
27	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 left	aux:pass
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 alone	advmod
31	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 left	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 cottage	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cottage	det
34	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the daughter				to WITCH's neighbors result; round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Result
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the daughter not said here		daughter			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the daughter not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	infinitive	the daughter not said here	WITCH				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	wash	to-infinitive	WITCH not said here	the old woman				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
6	leave	past · passive		meantime		the cottage	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cottage=Location

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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