Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 149

Up came a stranger to him, dressed all in black, who greeted him, and said:--

Who acts: stranger · What happens: come, dress, greet, say · To what, where: Novgorod, all, black · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dressed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 black	case
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dressed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 greeted	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 greeted	nsubj
14	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greeted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 --	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	a stranger		Novgorod		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	dress	participle	a stranger not said here	all		black	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
3	greet speech: greet	past			Novgorod		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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