Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 17

Then when he had brought home all his master's corn, he begged that he might have the remaining little sheaf for himself.

Who acts: Serpent · What happens: bring, beg, have · To what, where: corn, remaining little sheaf · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	5 brought	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 brought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 corn	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corn	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 master	case
11	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sheaf	det
20	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sheaf	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sheaf	amod
22	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 sheaf	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect	Serpent	Serpent's master's corn	then	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	Serpent				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	might	Serpent	the remaining little sheaf		for Serpent	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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