Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 126
The Tsar heard him singing and ran to the flight of steps, and recognised the potter.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: hear, sing, run, recognise · To what, where: POTTER
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 flight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flight | det |
| 10 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 steps | case |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recognised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recognised | cc |
| 15 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 potter | det |
| 17 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognised | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Tsar | POTTER | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the Tsar not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the Tsar not said here | to the flight of steps result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to flight=Result | ||||
| 4 | recognise | past | the Tsar not said here | the potter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potter=Stimulus |
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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