Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 24
She began praying and begging the good youth:
Who acts: eleven · What happens: begin, pray, beg · To what, where: good youth
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 began | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 begging | cc |
| 5 | begging | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 praying | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youth | amod |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begging | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | eleven | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | eleven not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | eleven not said here | the good youth | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
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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