Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 87

At length he came to where the giant Vertodub was,[218] and he besought him, saying:

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: come, beseech, say · To what, where: 218, length, Vertodub · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	ADP	_	6 where	case
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Vertodub	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Vertodub	amod
9	Vertodub	Vertodub	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 where	advcl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 218	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 218	punct
13	218	218	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 came	obl
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 218	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 besought	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 besought	nsubj
17	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 besought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 besought	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Ivan	218	length	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location
2	beseech	past	Ivan	Vertodub		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Ivan not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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