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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

So the Tsar ordered the peasant to be brought to him as soon as possible: he was brought, and the Tsar began asking him where he had found the boy.

Who acts: Tsar, peasant · What happens: order, bring, begin, ask, find · To what, where: peasant, boy

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, peasant), 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

advmoddetnsubjdetobjmarkaux:passaclcaseobladvmodadvmodmarkadvclpunctnsubjaux:passconjpunctccdetnsubjconjxcompobjadvmodnsubjauxadvcldetobjpunctrootSoADVtheDETTsarPROPNorderedVERBtheDETpeasantNOUNtoPARTbeAUXbroughtVERBtoADPhimPRONasADVsoonADVasSCONJpossibleADJ:PUNCThePRONwasAUXbroughtVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETTsarPROPNbeganVERBaskingVERBhimPRONwhereADVhePRONhadAUXfoundVERBtheDETboyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 orderedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Tsardet
3TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing4 orderednsubj
4orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 peasantdet
6peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing4 orderedobj
7totoPART_9 broughtmark
8bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf9 broughtaux:pass
9broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 peasantacl
10totoADP_11 himcase
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 broughtobl
12asasADV_13 soonadvmod
13soonsoonADVDegree=Pos9 broughtadvmod
14asasSCONJ_15 possiblemark
15possiblepossibleADJDegree=Pos13 soonadvcl
16::PUNCT_19 broughtpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 broughtnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 broughtaux:pass
19broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 orderedconj
20,,PUNCT_24 beganpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 begancc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Tsardet
23TsarTsarPROPNNumber=Sing24 begannsubj
24beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 orderedconj
25askingaskVERBVerbForm=Ger24 beganxcomp
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 askingobj
27wherewhereADVPronType=Rel30 foundadvmod
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 foundnsubj
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 foundaux
30foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 askingadvcl
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 boydet
32boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing30 foundobj
33..PUNCT_4 orderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1orderpastthe Tsarthe peasantvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Theme
2bringto-infinitive · passivethe Tsar not said herepeasantsoon propertyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination
3bringpast · passivepeasantvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
4beginpastthe Tsarvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5ask speech: askgerundthe Tsar not said herepeasantvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6findpast · perfectpeasantthe boyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic

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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