Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 148

He persuades her to undertake a second ascent together with him, so off they set in company, their young granddaughter climbing after them.

Who acts: husband, third, goats, young granddaughter · What happens: persuade, undertake, set, climb · To what, where: third, second ascent, company

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, third, goats, young granddaughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuades	nsubj
2	persuades	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuades	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 undertake	mark
5	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuades	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ascent	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 ascent	amod
8	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertake	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	5 undertake	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 undertake	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 set	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 persuades	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 company	case
18	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 granddaughter	punct
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 granddaughter	nmod:poss
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 granddaughter	amod
22	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 company	appos
23	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 granddaughter	acl
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climbing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 persuades	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	present	husband	third				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
2	undertake	to-infinitive	third not said here	a second ascent			with husband; together property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent ascent=Eventuality with he=Subeventuality
3	set	present	goats = goat		company			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in company=Destination
4	climb	gerund	goats's young granddaughter not said here			after goats = goat		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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