Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 60

Hearing that the saint was on his way to heaven, the Gypsy besought him to ask of God how he was to support his family.

Who acts: Gypsy, saint · What happens: hear, be, beseech, ask · To what, where: way, Yegory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Gypsy, saint), 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 besought	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 way	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 saint	det
4	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hearing	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 heaven	case
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearing	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gypsy	det
13	Gypsy	Gypsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 besought	nsubj
14	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 besought	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 besought	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 God	case
19	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ask	obl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 support	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 support	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 support	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 support	mark
24	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ask	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 family	nmod:poss
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 support	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 besought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Gypsy not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the saint		Gypsy's way	to heaven	tree rules
3	beseech	past	the Gypsy	Yegory			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the Gypsy not said here			of God	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent of god=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	past	Gypsy			support property	tree rules

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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