Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 39
But a dog begged for, and received a few ears.
Who acts: dog · What happens: beg, receive · To what, where: few ears
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (dog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 begged | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 begged | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 received | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 received | cc |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ears | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ears | amod |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 received | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | participle | a dog | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | a dog not said here | a few ears | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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