Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 151

Lo! there came out of the water a man--came up to him, and asked:

What happens: come out, come up, ask · To what, where: water, man

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. 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	Lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Lo	punct
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the water		there	a man obl	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result
2	come up	past		man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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