Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 146

He begged them straightway to sell him this incense.

Who acts: brother · What happens: beg, sell · To what, where: wares, incense, brother

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj
4	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 begged	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	iobj
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 incense	det
9	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	brother		wares = ware			straightway property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	sell	to-infinitive	brother not said here	this incense	brother				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient incense=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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