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INTRODUCTORY, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/) / 108 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 108 As soon as they got into the farmyard, and the pope saw they were alone at last, he began questioning the old man: "Listen, friend! confess to me, don't leave so much as a single sin on your soul--it's just the same before me as before God! **Who acts:** people, pope, friend, soul · **What happens:** get, see, be, begin, question, listen · **To what, where:** farmyard, last, old man, old hunks, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, pope, friend, soul), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:13:108 # text = As soon as they got into the farmyard, and the pope saw they were alone at last, he began questioning the old man: "Listen, friend! confess to me, don't leave so much as a single sin on your soul--it's just the same before me as before God! 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 farmyard farmyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pope pope NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 alone alone ADV RB _ 13 ccomp _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 questioning question VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obj _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 51 just just ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 54 before before ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 56 as as ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 before before ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | people | | | the farmyard | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | the pope | | | last | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | people | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** | past | pope | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **question** *speech: other* | gerund | pope *not said here* | | the old man | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | | 6 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **confess** *in a quote* | infinitive | friend | | the old hunks *= hunks* | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 8 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | much | | | before the old hunks *= hunks* | as a single sin on your soul; as God | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme before i=Location | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | soul | | | | | same *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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/13/109/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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