Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 96

The peasant addresses the same request to him, and he stops and gives the required assistance.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: address, stop, give, require · To what, where: same request, required assistance

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 (peasant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 addresses	nsubj
3	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 request	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 request	amod
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 addresses	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 request	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stops	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stops	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stops	nsubj
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 addresses	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gives	cc
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stops	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 assistance	det
16	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 assistance	amod
17	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 addresses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	address	present	the peasant	the same request	to St.	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Destination
2	stop	present	peasant			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	give	present	peasant not said here	the required assistance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme
4	require	participle				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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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