Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 173
The old woman saw him from afar, ran out to meet him, and called out ever so loud:
Who acts: old woman · What happens: see, run out, meet, call out · To what, where: man, afar
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 afar | case |
| 7 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ran | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 called | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 loud | advmod |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 16 called | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the old woman | man | afar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run out | past | the old woman not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | the old woman not said here | ever | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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