Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 1
Then the little devil begged him and cried in his ear: “Do let me go, peasant.
Who acts: little devil · What happens: beg, cry, let, go · To what, where: him, ear, little devil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little devil), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 begged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 devil | amod |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begged | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 peasant | punct |
| 19 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | vocative |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the little devil | him = he | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little devil not said here | devil's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the little devil = devil | peasant vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | the little devil = devil not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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