Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 93

He begs the hero to unloose the horse, promising, in return, to save him from three deaths.

Who acts: Koshchei, hero · What happens: beg, unloose, promise, save · To what, where: hero, horse, return, three deaths

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (Koshchei, hero), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begs	nsubj
2	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 unloose	mark
6	unloose	unloose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begs	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unloose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promising	punct
10	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 begs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 return	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 return	case
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promising	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 save	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
16	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 begs	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 save	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 deaths	case
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 deaths	nummod
20	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 save	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	Koshchei	the hero		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient clause=Topic
2	unloose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	the horse		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	gerund	Koshchei not said here	return		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent return=Theme
4	save	to-infinitive		hero	three deaths	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from death=Source

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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