Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 60

Frightened out of his wits, he was going to throw the imp back again into the pit, but it shrieked aloud, and earnestly entreated him, saying:

Who acts: pit, moujik · What happens: frighten, go, throw back, shriek, entreat, say · To what, where: wits, imp, pit, moujik · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pit, moujik), 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	Frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 shrieked	advcl
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 wits	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wits	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wits	nmod:poss
5	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Frightened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Frightened	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 throw	mark
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 imp	det
13	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 throw	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pit	det
18	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shrieked	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 shrieked	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shrieked	nsubj
22	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	22 shrieked	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 entreated	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 entreated	cc
26	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	27 entreated	advmod
27	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shrieked	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 entreated	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 entreated	advcl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle	pit not said here			moujik's wits			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past · progressive	moujik						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw back	to-infinitive	moujik not said here	the imp			again	into the pit result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer imp=Theme into pit=Result
4	shriek	past	pit					aloud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	entreat	past	pit not said here		moujik			earnestly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	pit not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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