Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 92

And Márya Tsarévna came out, went to meet Iván Tsarévich, asked him how he was, and began to tell him all her own story.

Who acts: Márya, Iván · What happens: come out, go, meet, ask, be, begin · To what, where: Iván, own story · 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 (Márya, Iván), 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	_	2 Márya	cc
2	Márya	Márya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Márya	flat
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 meet	mark
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
10	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 meet	obj
11	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Iván	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 was	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 story	det:predet
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 story	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 story	amod
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come out	past	Márya			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	Márya not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	meet	to-infinitive	Márya not said here	Iván			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past			Iván		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	be	past	Iván				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	Márya not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Márya not said here	MÁRYA's own story	Iván		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 92