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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 28

So the attendants took the Tsarévich, and were on the point of hanging him, when the Tsarévich fell on his knees before his father and began to ask for three hours’ interval.

Who acts: attendants, point, Tsarévich · What happens: take, be, hang, fall, begin, ask · To what, where: Tsarévich, point, knees

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, point, Tsarévich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmoddetnsubjdetobjpunctcccopcasedetoblmarkaclobjpunctadvmoddetnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possoblccconjmarkxcompcasenummodcompoundcaseoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETattendantsNOUNtookVERBtheDETTsarévichPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJwereAUXonADPtheDETpointNOUNofSCONJhangingVERBhimPRON,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETTsarévichPROPNfellVERBonADPhisPRONkneesNOUNbeforeADPhisPRONfatherNOUNandCCONJbeganVERBtoPARTaskVERBforADPthreeNUMhoursNOUN’PARTintervalNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 tookadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 attendantsdet
3attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur4 tooknsubj
4tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Tsarévichdet
6TsarévichTsarévichPROPNNumber=Sing4 tookobj
7,,PUNCT_12 pointpunct
8andandCCONJ_12 pointcc
9werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 pointcop
10ononADP_12 pointcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 pointdet
12pointpointNOUNNumber=Sing4 tookobl
13ofofSCONJ_14 hangingmark
14hanginghangVERBVerbForm=Ger12 pointacl
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 hangingobj
16,,PUNCT_20 fellpunct
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int20 felladvmod
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Tsarévichdet
19TsarévichTsarévichPROPNNumber=Sing20 fellnsubj
20fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 tookconj
21ononADP_23 kneescase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 kneesnmod:poss
23kneeskneeNOUNNumber=Plur20 fellobl
24beforebeforeADP_26 fathercase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 fathernmod:poss
26fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing20 fellobl
27andandCCONJ_28 begancc
28beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 fellconj
29totoPART_30 askmark
30askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf28 beganxcomp
31forforADP_35 intervalcase
32threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card33 hoursnummod
33hourshourNOUNNumber=Plur35 intervalcompound
34’'sPART_33 hourscase
35intervalintervalNOUNNumber=Sing30 askobl
36..PUNCT_4 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastthe attendantsthe Tsarévichvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tsarévich=Destination
2ispastthe pointtree rules
3hanggerundthe point not said hereTsarévichvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4fallpastthe TsarévichTsarévich's kneesbefore Tsarévich's fathervn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
5beginpastthe Tsarévich not said herevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6ask speech: askto-infinitivethe Tsarévich not said herefor hours intervalvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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