Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 86

Out ran the Princess Anna, greeted him joyfully, and began kissing and embracing him, asking after his health and telling him all about herself.

What happens: run, greet, begin, kiss, embrace, ask · To what, where: Princess Anna, Anna · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Out	out	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Anna	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Anna	compound
5	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 greeted	punct
7	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 greeted	obj
9	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	7 greeted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
13	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 began	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 embracing	cc
15	embracing	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kissing	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 embracing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asking	punct
18	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kissing	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 health	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 health	nmod:poss
21	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asking	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 telling	cc
23	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 asking	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 telling	iobj
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 herself	advmod
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 herself	case
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 telling	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the Princess Anna			out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anna=Agent
2	greet speech: greet	past		Anna		joyfully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kiss	gerund					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	embrace	gerund	Anna				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	ask speech: ask	gerund			after Anna's health		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	gerund		Anna		about youth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about herself=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 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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