Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 123

After a little time had passed by, the old man also hobbled down to the bank and called to his son:

Who acts: old man · What happens: pass by, hobble down, call · To what, where: bank, 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 (old man), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
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	_	13 hobbled	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hobbled	nsubj
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 hobbled	advmod
13	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 hobbled	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 bank	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bank	det
17	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hobbled	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 passed	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 son	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc 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	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	past · perfect				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hobble down	past	the old man		the bank		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination
3	call	participle		Ivashko'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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