--- title: This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, an… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, and then he took to entreating the Sun's Sister to let him go, that he might satisfy himself about his old home. Who acts: Ivan. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/112/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 112 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 112 This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, and then he took to entreating the Sun's Sister to let him go, that he might satisfy himself about his old home. **Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** have, confess, take, entreat, let, go · **To what, where:** everything, Sister, Ivan This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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:pg22373:32:112 # text = This time there was no help for it; he had to confess everything, and then he took to entreating the Sun's Sister to let him go, that he might satisfy himself about his old home. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 entreating entreat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 Sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 35 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obj _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Ivan | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **confess** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | | 3 | **take** | past | Ivan | | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **entreat** | gerund | Ivan *not said here* | | the Sun's Sister | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | Ivan | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **satisfy** | might | Ivan | Ivan | | | | about Ivan's old home | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/113/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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