Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 29

One day Elijah and Nicholas were walking through this peasant’s fields, going along and surveying; and the ears were so large, so full, that it warmed one’s heart to look at them!

Who acts: Elijah, ears, ear · What happens: walk, go along, survey, be, warm, look · To what, where: fields, one heart

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elijah, ears, ear), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 large	obl:unmarked
3	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 walking	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Nicholas	cc
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Elijah	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 day	parataxis
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 fields	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 peasant	det
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fields	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 peasant	case
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 walking	conj
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 surveying	cc
17	surveying	survey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 going	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 large	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 large	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ears	det
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 large	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 large	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 large	advmod
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 full	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 full	advmod
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 large	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 warmed	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 warmed	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 warmed	nsubj
31	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 large	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 heart	nummod
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 one	case
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 warmed	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 look	mark
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 warmed	advcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	Elijah and Nicholas		this peasant's fields			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory
2	go along	gerund	Elijah and Nicholas not said here				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	survey	gerund	Elijah and Nicholas not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the ears			day	large property	tree rules
5	be		the ears not said here					tree rules
6	warm	past	ear	one heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
7	look	to-infinitive	ear not said here				at ELIJAH	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

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 26, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 29