Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 49

Again they assist him, giving him twenty roubles, and again his wife gives them away unwittingly.

Who acts: ladies, wife · What happens: assist, give, give away · To what, where: man, twenty roubles, ladies

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 (ladies, wife), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 assist	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assist	nsubj
3	assist	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assist	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 assist	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	iobj
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 roubles	nummod
9	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 giving	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gives	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gives	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	14 wife	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	nsubj
15	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assist	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gives	iobj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 gives	advmod
18	unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	_	15 gives	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assist	present	ladies = lady		man	again		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	give	gerund	ladies = lady not said here	twenty roubles	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rouble=Theme
3	give away	present	man's wife		ladies = lady		away, unwittingly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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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