Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 30

And they got their guns and were levelling them at him: but the soldier never looked at them, never let the book drop out of his hand, and simply went on reading.

Who acts: superiors, soldier, book · What happens: get, levell, not look, not let, drop out, go · To what, where: guns, superiors, hand, reading

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 (superiors, soldier, book), 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	_	3 got	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guns	nmod:poss
5	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 levelling	cc
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 levelling	aux
8	levelling	levell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 got	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 levelling	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 levelling	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldier	det
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 looked	advmod
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 book	det
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drop	nsubj
25	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 let	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 hand	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drop	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
32	simply	simply	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 reading	case
35	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	superiors = superior	superiors's guns			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus
2	levell	past · progressive	superiors = superior not said here	superiors = superior		at host	tree rules
3	not look	past	the soldier			at superiors = superior	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	not let	infinitive	the soldier not said here				tree rules
5	drop out	present	the book	soldier's hand			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	go	past	superiors = superior not said here		reading	simply property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on reading=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 30