Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 63

Then the Tsar began to entreat him piteously. "

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: begin, entreat · To what, where: TSAR

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	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 entreat	mark
6	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entreat	obj
8	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	6 entreat	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Tsar				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	entreat	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here		TSAR			piteously property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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