Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 113
Just then he heard that some one was running after him, and crying:
Who acts: soldier, one · What happens: hear, run, cry
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, one), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 running | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 running | aux |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crying | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crying | cc |
| 14 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | soldier | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run | past · progressive | some one | after soldier | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | soldier not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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