Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 24

Then the Tsar began to ask her, “Do acknowledge with whom you have been guilty.”

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: begin, ask, acknowledge, be · To what, where: Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. 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

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 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 acknowledge	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 acknowledge	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 acknowledge	aux
11	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 acknowledge	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 guilty	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 guilty	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 guilty	cop
17	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whom	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	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	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here	Tsar			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	acknowledge in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the Tsar not said here			whom obl	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	Tsar			guilty property	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 24