Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 108

As soon as they got into the farmyard, and the pope saw they were alone at last, he began questioning the old man: "Listen, friend! confess to me, don't leave so much as a single sin on your soul--it's just the same before me as before God!

Who acts: people, pope, friend, soul · What happens: get, see, be, begin, question, listen · To what, where: farmyard, last, old man, old hunks, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, pope, friend, soul), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 got	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 farmyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmyard	det
8	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pope	det
12	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alone	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 alone	cop
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 saw	ccomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
22	questioning	question	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 began	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 questioning	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Listen	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Listen	punct
28	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 friend	punct
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 confess	nsubj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 friend	punct
32	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Listen	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 confess	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 leave	punct
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 leave	aux
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 leave	advmod
38	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Listen	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 leave	obj
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 sin	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 sin	det
43	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sin	amod
44	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 much	nmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 soul	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 soul	nmod:poss
47	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sin	nmod
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 same	punct
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 same	nsubj
50	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 same	cop
51	just	just	ADV	_	53 same	advmod
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 same	det
53	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 leave	conj
54	before	before	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 leave	obl
56	as	as	ADP	_	58 God	case
57	before	before	ADP	_	58 God	case
58	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 leave	obl
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	people			the farmyard		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	past	the pope			last			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	people					alone property	tree rules
4	begin	past	pope						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	question speech: other	gerund	pope not said here		the old man				vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
6	listen in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
7	confess in a quote	infinitive	friend		the old hunks = hunks				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
8	not leave in a quote	infinitive · do-support		much			before the old hunks = hunks	as a single sin on your soul; as God	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme before i=Location
9	is in a quote	present	soul					same property	tree rules

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.

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