Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 30

The old man recognized his son, and came forth to greet him, crying:

Who acts: old man · What happens: recognize, come, greet, cry · To what, where: son, man

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recognized	nsubj
4	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recognized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recognized	conj
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 greet	mark
12	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 greet	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 greet	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	the old man	man's son			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
2	come	past	the old man not said here			forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		man		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the old man 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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