Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 15
All of a sudden there came up with them the youngster who used to live with the Smith as his journeyman, who asked him:--
Who acts: All, youngster, journeyman · What happens: come up, use, live, ask · To what, where: youngster, husband
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, youngster, journeyman), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sudden | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngster | det |
| 11 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 used | nsubj |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 youngster | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Smith | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Smith | det |
| 18 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 journeyman | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journeyman | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journeyman | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 journeyman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asked | iobj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 -- | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | All | the youngster | with servants = servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | past | the youngster | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | the youngster not said here | with the Smith; as husband's journeyman | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with smith=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | husband's journeyman | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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