Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 115

When some little time had passed by, the old woman hobbled down to the river side and called to her son:

Who acts: little time, old woman · What happens: pass by, hobble down, call · To what, where: river side, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little time, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 passed	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hobbled	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hobbled	nsubj
12	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 hobbled	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 side	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	compound
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hobbled	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 side	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 son	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass by	past · perfect	some little time				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hobble down	past	the old woman		the river side	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination
3	call	participle	the old woman not said here	woman's son			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient

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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