Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 71

After that, the Fiddler began to talk to the sons of the rich moujik, and said:

Who acts: Fiddler · What happens: begin, talk, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiddler), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 began	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fiddler	det
5	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sons	det
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 moujik	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moujik	det
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moujik	amod
15	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sons	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Fiddler	after that		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	the Fiddler not said here		to the sons of the rich moujik	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to son=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

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