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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 29

When Vertogór saw what was happening, he seized hold of the highest mountain, piled it up on the road and stuck another on top of it.

Who acts: Vertogór · What happens: see, happen, seize, pile up, stick, hold · To what, where: hold, road, another, top, highest mountain · 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 (Vertogór), 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

advmodnsubjadvclnsubjauxccomppunctnsubjobjcasedetamodnmodpunctconjobjcompound:prtcasedetoblccconjobjcaseoblcasenmodpunctrootWhenADVVertogórPROPNsawVERBwhatPRONwasAUXhappeningVERB,PUNCThePRONseizedVERBholdNOUNofADPtheDEThighestADJmountainNOUN,PUNCTpiledVERBitPRONupADPonADPtheDETroadNOUNandCCONJstuckVERBanotherDETonADPtopNOUNofADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2VertogórVertogórPROPNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 seizedadvcl
4whatwhatPRONPronType=Int6 happeningnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 happeningaux
6happeninghappenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 sawccomp
7,,PUNCT_3 sawpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 seizednsubj
9seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10holdholdNOUNNumber=Sing9 seizedobj
11ofofADP_14 mountaincase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mountaindet
13highesthighADJDegree=Sup14 mountainamod
14mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing10 holdnmod
15,,PUNCT_16 piledpunct
16piledpileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 seizedconj
17ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 piledobj
18upupADP_16 piledcompound:prt
19ononADP_21 roadcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 roaddet
21roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing16 piledobl
22andandCCONJ_23 stuckcc
23stuckstickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 seizedconj
24anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind23 stuckobj
25ononADP_26 topcase
26toptopNOUNNumber=Sing23 stuckobl
27ofofADP_28 itcase
28ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 topnmod
29..PUNCT_9 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastVertogórvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2happenpast · progressivewhat nsubjvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seizepastVertogórhold of the highest mountainvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4pile uppastVertogór not said hereholdthe roadvn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on road=Destination
5stickpastVertogór not said hereanothertop of topvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme on top=Destination
6holdthe highest mountainnom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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