Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 42

One day he saw an old peasant passing by with sable, marten, beaver, and fox-skins; and he asked him: “Old man! whence do you come?”

Who acts: King, old peasant, peasant · What happens: see, pass, ask, come · To what, where: old peasant, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, old peasant, peasant), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 peasant	amod
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 peasant	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 marten	case
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 marten	case
11	sable	sable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marten	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sable	punct
13	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beaver	punct
15	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marten	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 skins	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 skins	cc
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skins	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fox	punct
20	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	iobj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
28	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	ccomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
31	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	34 come	advmod
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 man	acl:relcl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	King	a old peasant		day	fox skins obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peasant=Stimulus
2	pass	gerund	a old peasant not said here				by sable marten and beaver	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by marten=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	King		peasant		Old man ccomp	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	come in a quote	present · do-support	peasant				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 42