Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 67

The old man went round to his friends and neighbors, begging them to help him to dig a grave for the old woman; but his friends and neighbors, knowing his great poverty, all flatly refused.

Who acts: old man, man, friends · What happens: go round, beg, help, dig, know, refuse · To what, where: neighbors, man, grave, great poverty

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 (old man, man, friends), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 friends	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 neighbors	cc
10	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 friends	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begging	punct
12	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begging	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begging	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dig	mark
18	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 help	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grave	det
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dig	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 woman	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dig	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 knowing	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 knowing	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friends	nmod:poss
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knowing	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 neighbors	cc
30	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 friends	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knowing	punct
32	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 poverty	nmod:poss
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 poverty	amod
35	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knowing	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 all	punct
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 knowing	obl
38	flatly	flatly	ADV	_	39 refused	advmod
39	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 all	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go round	past	the old man			to man's friends and neighbors; round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the old man not said here		neighbors = neighbor		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	help	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	dig	to-infinitive	man not said here	a grave		for the old woman	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Result for woman=Beneficiary
5	know	gerund	man's friends and neighbors	man's great poverty		all obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer poverty=Stimulus
6	refuse	past				flatly property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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