Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 95
Suddenly another horseman pranced by on his way.
What happens: prance · To what, where: horseman
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 horseman | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 horseman | det |
| 3 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | pranced | prance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horseman | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pranced | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 horseman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prance | participle | another horseman not said here | by gate's way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Trajectory |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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