Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 11

Then beg thy master to let thee have this little sheaf by way of wages.

Who acts: you, thee · What happens: beg, let, have · To what, where: master, thee, little sheaf

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thee), 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	2 beg	advmod
2	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beg	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beg	advcl
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sheaf	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sheaf	amod
11	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 way	case
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wages	case
15	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 way	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	imperative	you not said here	thy master	then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	you not said here	thee			tree rules
3	have	infinitive	thee not said here	this little sheaf		by way of wages	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Patient

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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