Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 81

At length he came to where two old women were sewing and he begged them to let him live with them.

Who acts: Ivan, two old women · What happens: come, sew, beg, let, live · To what, where: length, groom, Ivan

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, two old women), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	11 sewing	mark
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sewing	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 women	nummod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sewing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sewing	aux
11	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 let	mark
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 live	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Ivan			length		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	sew	past · progressive	two old women					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	Ivan		groom			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	let	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	Ivan				tree rules
5	live	infinitive	Ivan not said here				with groom	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location

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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