Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 105

Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you not to shoot, saying to myself all the time, 'Perhaps he won't kill me; perhaps he'll relent and take me home with him!'"

Who acts: you, I, King · What happens: go, let, fly, keep, entreat, not shoot · To what, where: myself, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, King), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	parataxis
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 entreating	mark
14	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kept	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 shoot	nsubj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 shoot	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 shoot	mark
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 entreating	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 entreating	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 myself	case
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 saying	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saying	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
28	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 kill	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	nsubj
30	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 kill	advmod
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	advcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 relent	punct
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	38 relent	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 relent	nsubj
37	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 relent	aux
38	relent	relent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kept	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 take	cc
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 relent	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 take	obj
42	home	home	ADV	_	40 take	advmod
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 take	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 relent	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 relent	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	you			time		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	to-infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
3	fly	infinitive	you not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past	I					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	entreat	gerund	I not said here					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not shoot	to-infinitive	you					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here		myself	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient
8	not kill	future	King	me			perhaps property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	relent	future	King				perhaps property	tree rules
10	take	infinitive	King not said here		me		with King; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

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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