Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 47

Next day the girl's father and mother sent for the priest, told him the whole story, and entreated him to help them in their trouble.

Who acts: father · What happens: send, tell, entreat, help, trouble · To what, where: whole story, him, father, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (father), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 priest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 priest	det
12	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 story	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 entreated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 entreated	cc
21	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entreated	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 help	mark
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entreated	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 trouble	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 trouble	nmod:poss
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 help	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the girl's father and mother				day	for the priest	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the girl's father and mother not said here	the whole story	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	entreat	past	the girl's father and mother not said here		him = he				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	help	to-infinitive	the girl's father and mother not said here	father		father's trouble			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
5	trouble		father						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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