Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 28
So she followed him farther, and she had almost caught him up.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: follow, catch up · To what, where: Iván, Tsarévich
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 (Tsarévich), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | 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 followed | obj |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 followed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | aux |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 caught | advmod |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 caught | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Tsarévich | Iván | far property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch up | past · perfect · passive | Tsarévich | Iván obj; almost property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=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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