Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 33

Seeing a spring near at hand, he bends down and is just going to lap up its water, when the Tsar-Medved, a King-Bear, seizes him by the beard.

Who acts: King, Tsar · What happens: see, bend down, go, lap up, seize · To what, where: hand, water, King

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Tsar), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bends	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 hand	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bends	nsubj
9	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 bends	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bends	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lap	mark
16	lap	lap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 lap	compound:prt
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 water	nmod:poss
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lap	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seizes	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 seizes	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Tsar	det
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 seizes	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Medved	punct
25	Medved	Medved	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tsar	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Bear	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Bear	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Bear	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 King	punct
30	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tsar	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Tsar	punct
32	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 going	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seizes	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 beard	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beard	det
36	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seizes	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	King not said here		hand	spring		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	bend down	present	King				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	present · progressive	King not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lap up	to-infinitive	King not said here	hand's water				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	seize	present	the Tsar and Medved and a King Bear	King			by the beard	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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