Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 19

The old man was loth to give her up, so he shifted the maidens about, and told him to make a fresh choice.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: be, give up, shift, tell, make · To what, where: bride, maidens, man, fresh choice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loth	cop
5	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loth	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shifted	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 shifted	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shifted	nsubj
13	shifted	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loth	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maidens	det
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shifted	obj
16	about	about	ADV	_	13 shifted	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loth	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 choice	det
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 choice	amod
25	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man			loth property	tree rules
2	give up	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		bride		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source
3	shift	past	man	the maidens		about property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer maiden=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past			man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		a fresh choice			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product

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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