Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 80

"My Father," begs the Prince, "there's an old fellow of mine here; please let him take a snack with us."

Who acts: Father, old fellow, fellow · What happens: beg, be, let, take · To what, where: Prince, fellow, snack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Father, old fellow, fellow), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Father	nmod:poss
3	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 begs	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
6	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 begs	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 's	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 's	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 's	expl
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 begs	parataxis
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fellow	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 's	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 mine	case
17	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fellow	nmod
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 's	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	please	please	INTJ	_	21 let	discourse
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 begs	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 snack	det
25	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begs	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 begs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	My Father		the Prince			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	a old fellow of mine			here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive	My Father not said here	fellow				tree rules
4	take in a quote	infinitive	fellow not said here	a snack			with us	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme

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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