Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 24

One day he was going through the forest; all of a sudden his dog began to bark, and the hair of its back bristled up.

Who acts: hunter, all, hair · What happens: go, begin, bark, bristle up · To what, where: One day, forest

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 (hunter, all, hair), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl:relcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 began	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 dog	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dog	amod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dog	nmod:poss
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bark	mark
18	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bristled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bristled	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hair	det
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bristled	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 back	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hair	nmod
26	bristled	bristle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 bristled	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	hunter	One day not said here	the forest		tree rules
2	begin	past	all			day	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bark	to-infinitive	all not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bristle up	past	the hair of hair's back				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location

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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