Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 27

Up came the sheat-fish with his big whiskers, and after him the beetle and the mouse: they all ran up, they all pressed round him and did all the service they could.

Who acts: sheat fish, whiskers · What happens: come, run up, press, do · To what, where: service

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 (sheat fish, whiskers), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
4	sheat	sheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fish	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sheat	punct
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 whiskers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 whiskers	nmod:poss
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whiskers	amod
10	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fish	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 him	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 him	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beetle	det
16	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 him	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mouse	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouse	det
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beetle	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 they	det
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 ran	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 they	det
28	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 all	acl
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pressed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 service	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 service	det
35	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	obj
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 service	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the sheat fish with fish's big whiskers		sleep parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run up	past	whiskers = whisker			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	press	participle			round sleep	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round he=Trajectory
4	do	past	whiskers = whisker	all service		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality

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 17, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 27