Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 50

Then the ladies bestow on him two farthings (_groshi_), telling him to give them to fishermen, and bid them make a cast "for his luck."

Who acts: ladies · What happens: bestow, tell, give, bid, make · To what, where: two farthings, man, ladies, cast · 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 (ladies), 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	4 bestow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bestow	nsubj
4	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bestow	obl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 farthings	nummod
8	farthings	farthing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bestow	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 groshi	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 groshi	punct
11	groshi	groshi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 farthings	appos
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 groshi	punct
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 groshi	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 telling	punct
15	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bestow	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 telling	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 telling	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 fishermen	case
21	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 give	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bid	cc
24	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bestow	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bid	obj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bid	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cast	det
28	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 cast	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 luck	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 luck	nmod:poss
32	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bestow	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bestow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	present	the ladies	two farthings		then	on man	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the ladies not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ladies not said here		ladies = lady		to fishermen	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to fisherman=Recipient
4	bid	infinitive	the ladies not said here	ladies = lady				tree rules
5	make	infinitive	the ladies not said here	a cast			for man's luck	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent cast=Product for luck=Asset

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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