Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 62

So she began begging her father to give her in marriage to the fool.

Who acts: stove · What happens: begin, beg, give · To what, where: father, stove, marriage

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stove), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begging	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begging	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 marriage	case
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 fool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fool	det
14	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	stove				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	gerund	stove not said here	stove's father			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	give	to-infinitive	stove not said here	stove	marriage	to the fool	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to fool=Recipient

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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