Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 109

Then he began to entreat him, saying, "Come and pay me a visit, Petrusha.

Who acts: devil · What happens: begin, entreat, say, come, pay · To what, where: devil, Petrusha, visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 entreat	mark
5	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 entreat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
11	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saying	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pay	cc
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Come	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pay	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 visit	det
16	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Petrusha	punct
18	Petrusha	Petrusha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	devil			then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	entreat	to-infinitive	devil not said here		devil		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	devil not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive		Petrusha			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pay in a quote	infinitive		a visit	devil		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset

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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