--- title: The old man went round to his friends and neighbors, begging them to… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The old man went round to his friends and neighbors, begging them to help him to dig a grave for the old woman; but his friends and neighbors, knowing his great poverty, all flatly refused. Who acts: old man, man, friends. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/) / 67 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 67 The old man went round to his friends and neighbors, begging them to help him to dig a grave for the old woman; but his friends and neighbors, knowing his great poverty, all flatly refused. **Who acts:** old man, man, friends · **What happens:** go round, beg, help, dig, know, refuse · **To what, where:** neighbors, man, grave, great poverty This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, friends), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:13:67 # text = The old man went round to his friends and neighbors, begging them to help him to dig a grave for the old woman; but his friends and neighbors, knowing his great poverty, all flatly refused. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 neighbors neighbor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 neighbors neighbor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 obl _ _ 38 flatly flatly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go round** | past | the old man | | | | | to man's friends and neighbors; round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the old man *not said here* | | neighbors *= neighbor* | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | man | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **dig** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a grave | | | | for the old woman | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Result for woman=Beneficiary | | 5 | **know** | gerund | man's friends and neighbors | man's great poverty | | | | all *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer poverty=Stimulus | | 6 | **refuse** | past | | | | | | flatly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/68/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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