Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 157

Now, anybody else in his place would have cried out, would have become melancholy and angry, might have put his hands up.

Who acts: anybody · What happens: cry out, become, put up · To what, where: melancholy

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anybody), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 cried	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 anybody	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 anybody	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	aux
10	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 cried	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 become	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	conj
16	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl:unmarked
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 angry	cc
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 melancholy	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 melancholy	punct
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	aux
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 become	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	would · perfect	anybody in master's place		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	would · perfect	anybody in master's place not said here				tree rules
3	put up	might · perfect	anybody in master's place not said here	melancholy		master's hands obj	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 157