Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 104

He walked and walked, and suddenly, goodness knows whence, there appeared before him a fine-looking man, who saluted him and said:

Who acts: devil, goodness, looking man · What happens: walk, know, appear, look, salute, say · To what, where: looking man, devil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, goodness, looking man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knows	cc
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 knows	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 suddenly	punct
9	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
11	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	10 knows	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 appeared	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 appeared	expl
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appeared	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looking	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saluted	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 saluted	nsubj
24	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saluted	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saluted	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	devil					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	devil not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	present	goodness				suddenly, whence property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	appear	past	devil not said here	a looking man	there	before devil		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
5	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	salute	past	a looking man	devil				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
7	say speech: assert	past	a looking man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

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