Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 111

Then she began to beg and pray him, "Come down, come down!

Who acts: bang · What happens: begin, beg, pray, come down · To what, where: fury · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bang), 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 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 beg	mark
5	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pray	cc
7	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beg	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pray	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Come	punct
11	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 Come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Come	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	bang		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	bang not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	pray	infinitive	bang not said here	fury			tree rules
4	come down in a quote	infinitive				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come down in a quote	infinitive				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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