Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 150

Wednesday came running back, and began crying: "Let me in, my dear!

Who acts: Wednesday · What happens: come, run back, begin, cry, let in · To what, where: Wednesday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wednesday), 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	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 running	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Let	punct
11	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 Let	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	11 Let	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dear	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dear	nmod:poss
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Let	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	Wednesday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run back	gerund	Wednesday not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	Wednesday not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Wednesday not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let in in a quote	infinitive	Wednesday not said here	Wednesday	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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