Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 70
Then she again began imploring him to build some sort of a house.
Who acts: hold · What happens: begin, implore, build, sort · To what, where: command, sort, house
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 (hold), 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 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | imploring | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 imploring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 build | mark |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imploring | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | hold | then; again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | implore | gerund | hold not said here | command | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | hold not said here | some sort of a house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product | ||||
| 4 | sort | a house | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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