Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 12

Then the witch began to ask that her brother might be given up to her for punishment.

Who acts: witch · What happens: begin, ask, give up · To what, where: brother, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 given	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	aux:pass
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ask	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 given	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 punishment	case
17	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the witch			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the witch not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give up	might · passive		witch's brother	witch		for punishment	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient

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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