Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 85
I begged and prayed, but still he held me tight. '
Who acts: I, wanton · What happens: beg, pray, hold · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wanton), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 prayed | cc |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 held | nsubj |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | past | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | wanton | me | still | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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