Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 45

[245] He tells them how poor he is, and they agree that it will be well to bestow something on him. "

Who acts: man, ladies, Misfortune · What happens: tell, be, agree, bestow · To what, where: ladies, something · 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 (man, ladies, Misfortune), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 245	punct
2	245	245	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 245	punct
4	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 245	parataxis
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 poor	advmod
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tells	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poor	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poor	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agree	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 agree	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 agree	nsubj
14	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 well	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 well	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 well	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 well	cop
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 bestow	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bestow	mark
21	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 agree	ccomp
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 bestow	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bestow	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 245	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 245	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	man		ladies = lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	man			poor property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	present	ladies = lady				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	future	Misfortune			well property	tree rules
5	bestow not said to happen	to-infinitive		something		on man	tree rules

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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