Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 73

Next night it was the turn of the second uncle, and he began to beg and pray, "Go thou, simpleton, in my stead!

Who acts: Next night, first · What happens: be, begin, beg, pray, go · To what, where: turn, thou, stead · 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 (Next night, first), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 turn	det
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 uncle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 uncle	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 uncle	amod
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 beg	mark
16	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pray	cc
18	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beg	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
21	Go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beg	conj
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 Go	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 simpleton	punct
24	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stead	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 stead	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 stead	nmod:poss
28	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Go	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Next night	the turn		of the second uncle	tree rules
2	begin	past	first				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	first not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	pray	infinitive	first not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	go in a quote	infinitive	first not said here	thou	my stead	simpleton obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=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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