Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 10

He looked out, and saw that swans and geese[210] were flying by, so he called to them imploringly:

Who acts: oak, swans · What happens: look out, see, fly by, call · To what, where: swans · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, swans), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 flying	mark
8	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flying	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 geese	cc
10	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swans	conj
11	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 210	punct
12	210	210	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 swans	appos
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 210	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 flying	aux
15	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saw	ccomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	15 flying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 called	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	obl
23	imploringly	imploringly	ADV	_	20 called	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look out	past	oak			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	oak not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fly by	past · progressive	swans and geese			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	past	oak	swans = swan	imploringly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=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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