Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 60

But just as he was going to shoot at it the Eaglet began to entreat him, crying:--

Who acts: King · What happens: go, shoot, begin, entreat, cry · To what, where: Eaglet, oak, King

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 began	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shoot	mark
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shoot	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Eaglet	det
12	Eaglet	Eaglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	obj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 entreat	mark
15	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 entreat	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crying	punct
18	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 entreat	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	King				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shoot	to-infinitive	King not said here	the Eaglet		oak	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eaglet=Theme at it=Destination
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	entreat	to-infinitive			King		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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