Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 98
And they reached the abode of the Tsar and began to beg for alms.
Who acts: men · What happens: reach, begin, beg · To what, where: abode
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 reached | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 abode | det |
| 5 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Tsar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 abode | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 beg | mark |
| 12 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 alms | case |
| 14 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beg | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | men = man | the abode of the Tsar | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | men = man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | for alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for alm=Topic |
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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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