Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 35

Let me go! let me go!" begged the serpent, "and I'll never fly here again, but will renounce my tithes."

Who acts: me, I · What happens: let, go, beg, not fly, renounce · To what, where: me, serpent, tithes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, I), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 begged	parataxis
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 serpent	det
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fly	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 fly	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fly	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 fly	advmod
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	conj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 fly	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 fly	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 renounce	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 renounce	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 renounce	aux
25	renounce	renounce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 begged	parataxis
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tithes	nmod:poss
27	tithes	tithe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 renounce	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 renounce	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 renounce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	me not said here	me			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beg speech: request in a quote	past		the serpent			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent serpent=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not fly	future	I		here	again	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	renounce	future		my tithes			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tithe=Source

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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