Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 121

The parson scratched himself behind the ears and hesitated; but at last he thought he had better give the money and be quit of him.

Who acts: parson · What happens: scratch, hesitate, think, have, give, quit · To what, where: parson, ears, last, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson), 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	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scratched	nsubj
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 scratched	obj
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ears	det
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scratched	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hesitated	cc
9	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ears	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scratched	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	ccomp
18	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 give	advmod
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 money	det
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 quit	cc
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 quit	aux:pass
24	quit	quit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 give	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 quit	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scratched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	the parson	parson	the ears		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind ear=Location
2	hesitate	participle	the parson not said here				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	parson		last		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	parson				tree rules
5	give	infinitive	parson not said here	the money		well property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	quit	infinitive · passive	parson not said here			of parson	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»

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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