Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 9

The old woman ran down a by-street, came to meet him a second time, and said:

Who acts: old woman · What happens: run down, come, meet, say · To what, where: left · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ran	flat:foreign
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meet	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meet	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run down	past	the old woman			by street	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by street=Trajectory
2	come	past	the old woman not said here				tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	left	time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past					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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