Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 71

As he went along the road he saw a beggar--an old man, who sat there asking for alms--"Please to give, O ye Orthodox, for Christ's sake!"

Who acts: merchant, old man · What happens: go, see, sit, ask, give · To what, where: road, beggar, ye Orthodox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, old man), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beggar	det
10	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beggar	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sat	advmod
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 alms	case
21	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 asking	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
24	Please	please	INTJ	_	26 give	discourse
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saw	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Orthodox	punct
28	O	o	INTJ	_	30 Orthodox	discourse
29	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 Orthodox	compound
30	Orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sake	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 sake	case
33	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sake	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Christ	case
35	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 sake	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	merchant		the road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location
2	see	past	merchant	a beggar			tree rules
3	sit	past	a old man		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	a old man not said here			for alms	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	to-infinitive		ye Orthodox		for Christ's sake	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent orthodox=Theme for sake=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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