Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 156
On the way he met his servant, who had climbed a birch-tree and was trembling for fear.
Who acts: Iván, servant · What happens: meet, climb, tremble · To what, where: servant, way, birch tree
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, servant), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climbed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 climbed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 climbed | aux |
| 11 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 servant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 birch | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climbed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trembling | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trembling | aux |
| 18 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 met | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trembling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Iván | Iván's servant | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | climb | past · perfect | Iván's servant | a birch tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past · progressive | Iván not said here | for fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 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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