Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 172

Then the old man began to bow down before Kruchina and to beseech him[239] to give back the bread, seeing that he and his had nothing to eat.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: begin, bow down, beseech, give back, see, have · To what, where: Kruchina, man, bread, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bow	mark
7	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 bow	compound:prt
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 Kruchina	case
10	Kruchina	Kruchina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beseech	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 beseech	mark
13	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bow	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beseech	obj
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 239	punct
16	239	239	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 beseech	obl
17	]	]	PUNCT	_	16 239	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 beseech	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bread	det
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seeing	punct
24	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 his	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 he	conj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seeing	ccomp
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 had	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 nothing	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old man			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bow down	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		Kruchina			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before kruchina=Location
3	beseech	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man			239 obl	tree rules
4	give back	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the bread				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
5	see	gerund	the old man not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	man	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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