Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 16

Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone and to nobody else!" and they wept and entreated so much that at last he forgave them.

Who acts: friends, We, serpent · What happens: fall, entreat, listen, weep, forgive · To what, where: you, much, friends, last

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (friends, We, serpent), 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	3 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 weeping	case
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 entreating	cc
7	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 weeping	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 listen	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 listen	aux
12	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 listen	obl
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 listen	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nobody	cc
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 nobody	case
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fell	conj
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 nobody	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 nobody	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 nobody	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wept	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wept	nsubj
24	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 entreated	cc
26	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 entreated	obj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 forgave	mark
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forgave	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forgave	nsubj
33	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 much	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forgave	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	friends = friend				then	to weeping	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to weeping=Theme
2	entreat	gerund	friends = friend not said here						vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	listen in a quote	future	We		you			alone property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme
4	weep	past	friends = friend						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	entreat	past	friends = friend not said here	much					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
6	forgive	past	serpent	friends = friend		last			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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