Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 129

Then the gipsy began higgling and haggling, but the man would not give way. "

Who acts: gipsy, man · What happens: begin, higgle, haggle, not give · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gipsy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gipsy	det
3	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	higgling	higgle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 haggling	cc
7	haggling	haggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 higgling	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the gipsy		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	higgle	gerund	the gipsy not said here			tree rules
3	haggle	gerund	the gipsy not said here			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not give	would	the man	way		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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