Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 10

After the meal the beggar exchanges crosses with his host,[437] giving him "a cross which blazes like fire," and invites him to pay him a visit on the following Tuesday.

Who acts: beggar, host, cross · What happens: exchange, give, blaze, invite, pay, follow · To what, where: crosses, cross, beggar

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, host, cross), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 meal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meal	det
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exchanges	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beggar	det
5	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exchanges	nsubj
6	exchanges	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 exchanges	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 host	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 host	nmod:poss
10	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exchanges	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 437	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 437	punct
13	437	437	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 host	appos
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 437	punct
15	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 host	acl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 giving	iobj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cross	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cross	det
19	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 giving	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 blazes	nsubj
21	blazes	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cross	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 fire	case
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blazes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fire	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 blazes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 invites	cc
27	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 blazes	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 invites	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 pay	mark
30	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 invites	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pay	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 visit	det
33	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pay	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 Tuesday	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Tuesday	det
36	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 Tuesday	amod
37	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 pay	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exchanges	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	exchange	present	the beggar	crosses		after the meal	with beggar's host	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent cross=Theme with host=Co-Agent
2	give	gerund	beggar's host not said here	a cross	beggar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cross=Theme
3	blaze in a quote	present	a cross				like fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	invite	present	a cross not said here	beggar				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	beggar not said here		beggar	tuesday		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset
6	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «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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