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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 26

So the Tsar looked for Nikíta, and went to him himself to beg him to release the land from the cruelty of the dragon and redeem the princess.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: look, go, beg, release, redeem · To what, where: NIKÍTA, land, cruelty, princess

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. 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.

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

The tree

advmoddetnsubjcaseoblpunctccconjcaseobloblmarkadvclobjmarkxcompdetobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjdetobjpunctrootSoADVtheDETTsarPROPNlookedVERBforADPNikítaPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBtoADPhimPRONhimselfPRONtoPARTbegVERBhimPRONtoPARTreleaseVERBtheDETlandNOUNfromADPtheDETcrueltyNOUNofADPtheDETdragonNOUNandCCONJredeemVERBtheDETprincessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 lookedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Tsardet
3TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing4 lookednsubj
4lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5forforADP_6 Nikítacase
6NikítaNikítaPROPNNumber=Sing4 lookedobl
7,,PUNCT_9 wentpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 wentcc
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lookedconj
10totoADP_11 himcase
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 wentobl
12himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes9 wentobl
13totoPART_14 begmark
14begbegVERBVerbForm=Inf9 wentadvcl
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 begobj
16totoPART_17 releasemark
17releasereleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf14 begxcomp
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 landdet
19landlandNOUNNumber=Sing17 releaseobj
20fromfromADP_22 crueltycase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 crueltydet
22crueltycrueltyNOUNNumber=Sing17 releaseobl
23ofofADP_25 dragoncase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 dragondet
25dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing22 crueltynmod
26andandCCONJ_27 redeemcc
27redeemredeemVERBVerbForm=Inf17 releaseconj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 princessdet
29princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing27 redeemobj
30..PUNCT_4 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastthe Tsarfor Nikítavn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nikíta=Theme
2gopastthe Tsar not said hereNIKÍTA = nikítaNIKÍTA = nikítavn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3beg speech: requestto-infinitivethe Tsar not said hereNIKÍTA = nikítavn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4release not said to happento-infinitivethe Tsar not said herethe landthe cruelty of the dragonvn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer land=Source
5redeeminfinitivethe Tsar not said herethe princessvn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

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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