Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 96

Willingly would he have done any sort of work if he had only known how, but he had never been used to work, so he had to go along begging his bread, and could scarce beg enough to keep body and soul together.

Who acts: man, scarce beg · What happens: do, know, not use, work, have, go along · To what, where: sort, man, scarce beg, bread, body, work

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 (man, scarce beg), 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	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 sort	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 known	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 known	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 known	advmod
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 done	advcl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 known	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 used	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 used	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 used	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 used	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 used	aux:pass
22	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 done	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	along	along	ADP	_	32 begging	mark
32	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 go	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bread	nmod:poss
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 begging	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 beg	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 beg	cc
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 beg	aux
38	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beg	amod
39	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
40	enough	enough	ADV	_	39 beg	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 keep	mark
42	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 beg	acl
43	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 keep	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 soul	cc
45	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 body	conj
46	together	together	ADV	_	42 keep	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	would · perfect	man	any sort of work	willingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	not use	past · perfect · passive		man		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	work	to-infinitive				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	man	scarce beg		tree rules
6	go along	to-infinitive	scarce beg not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	beg speech: request	gerund	scarce beg not said here	man's bread		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient
8	keep	to-infinitive	man not said here	body and soul	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
9	sort			work		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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