Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 39

He knocks at the door, and out comes an old man--"all white."

Who acts: dog, old man · What happens: knock, come

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocks	nsubj
2	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocks	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 comes	cc
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knocks	parataxis
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 white	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 white	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 white	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 comes	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocks	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 knocks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present	dog					at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	come	present	a old man					out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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