Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 153

Meanwhile the poor man sometimes had not so much as a morsel of bread, and his children--each one smaller than the other--were crying and begging for food.

Who acts: poor man, children · What happens: have, cry, beg · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, children), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 much	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 morsel	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 morsel	det
12	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 bread	case
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 morsel	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crying	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 crying	nsubj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 smaller	punct
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smaller	nsubj
22	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 children	amod
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smaller	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 children	punct
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 crying	aux
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 begging	cc
30	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 crying	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 food	case
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begging	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor man	much	as a morsel of bread; meanwhile, sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	man's children			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	gerund	man's children not said here		for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic

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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