Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 160
At this the peasant was frightened, and almost let the cord fall out of his hands.
Who acts: cord · What happens: frighten, let, fall · To what, where: peasant, cord, hands
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cord), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 peasant | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 peasant | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peasant | det |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cord | det |
| 12 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fall | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | this peasant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the cord | almost property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | the cord not said here | peasant's hands | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |
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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