Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 105

And the Crow flew down from the oak, struck the earth, turned into a doughty youth, and cried out, “Ánna Tsarévna, come out as fast as you can: our brother has arrived.”

Who acts: Crow, brother · What happens: fly down, strike, turn, cry out, come out, arrive · To what, where: oak, earth, doughty youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow, brother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 flew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crow	det
3	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 struck	punct
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struck	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 earth	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 youth	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 youth	det
17	doughty	doughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 youth	amod
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cried	cc
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 cried	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Ánna	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Ánna	punct
25	Ánna	Ánna	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cried	conj
26	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Ánna	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 come	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 can	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 can	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 arrived	punct
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 brother	nmod:poss
37	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arrived	nsubj
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 arrived	aux
39	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 come	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	the Crow		the oak	down property	tree rules
2	strike	past	the Crow not said here	the earth			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
3	turn	participle		the earth not said here	a doughty youth		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory
4	cry out speech: express	past	the Crow not said here			Ánna conj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come out in a quote	present				fast, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	arrive in a quote	present · perfect	our brother				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 23, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 105