Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 112

This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, and then he took to entreating the Sun's Sister to let him go, that he might satisfy himself about his old home.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: have, confess, take, entreat, let, go · To what, where: everything, Sister, Ivan

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl:unmarked
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 help	det
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 confess	mark
13	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 confess	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 took	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 entreating	mark
21	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 took	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sun	det
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Sister	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Sun	case
25	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entreating	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entreating	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 satisfy	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 satisfy	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 satisfy	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 satisfy	aux
34	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 satisfy	obj
36	about	about	ADP	_	39 home	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 home	nmod:poss
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 home	amod
39	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 satisfy	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ivan			time		tree rules
2	confess	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	everything				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
3	take	past	Ivan			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	entreat	gerund	Ivan not said here		the Sun's Sister			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient
5	let	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	Ivan				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	Ivan not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	satisfy	might	Ivan	Ivan			about Ivan's old home	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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