Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 30
And the witch was very furious, and began climbing up, and in the meantime Iván Tsarévich got far and far away.
Who acts: witch, meantime · What happens: be, begin, climb up, get
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 (witch, meantime), 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 | _ | 6 furious | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furious | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 furious | advmod |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furious | parataxis |
| 10 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 climbing | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 meantime | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meantime | det |
| 16 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 17 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meantime | appos |
| 18 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Iván | flat |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 got | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 away | cc |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 far | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the witch | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | climb up | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | the meantime | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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