Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 95

She went on and on till night descended upon her, and she came to the lonely abode of another old woman, and begged a night's lodging of her also.

Who acts: mother, night · What happens: go, descend, come, beg · To what, where: lonely abode, lodging

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, night), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 descended	mark
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 descended	nsubj
8	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 descended	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 abode	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 abode	det
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 abode	amod
18	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 woman	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abode	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 begged	cc
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lodging	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 night	case
29	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begged	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lodging	nmod
32	also	also	ADV	_	25 begged	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	mother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	descend	past	night			upon mother	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	mother		the lonely abode of another old woman		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to abode=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	mother not said here	a night's lodging of mother			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lodging=Recipient

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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