Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 111

The merchant was greatly pleased, seated him at his table, and began offering him brandy to drink.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, seat, begin, offer, drink · To what, where: merchant, table, brandy

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seated	punct
7	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seated	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 table	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 table	nmod:poss
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seated	conj
15	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offering	obj
17	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offering	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drink	mark
19	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 brandy	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the merchant				greatly, pleased property	tree rules
2	seat	past	the merchant not said here	merchant		merchant's table		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value
3	begin	past	the merchant not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	offer	gerund	the merchant not said here	brandy	merchant			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal brandy=Theme
5	drink	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here	brandy not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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