Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 161

As I was coming here, I was passed by one riding on a white horse; he was white himself, and dressed in white.

Who acts: I, one riding, old · What happens: come, pass, be, dress · To what, where: I, white

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one riding, old), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 coming	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 coming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 passed	advcl
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 coming	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 coming	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux:pass
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 riding	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 riding	nummod
12	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 horse	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 horse	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horse	amod
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 riding	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 white	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 white	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 white	cop
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 passed	parataxis
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 white	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dressed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dressed	cc
24	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 passed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 white	case
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dressed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	I		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past · passive	one riding on a white horse	I			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
3	is	past	old			white property	tree rules
4	dress	participle	one riding on a white horse not said here		white		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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