Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 13

So he went on and on and on, and he came up to the mountains, and on one of the mountains there was a fissure, and in the fissure stood a little hut.

Who acts: dog, fissure · What happens: go, come up, be, stand · To what, where: mountains, little hut, fissure

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, fissure), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 on	cc
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 on	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 on	cc
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 on	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 mountains	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountains	det
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 was	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mountains	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountains	det
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fissure	det
27	fissure	fissure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 fissure	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fissure	det
32	fissure	fissure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obl
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hut	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hut	amod
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	dog				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	past	dog		the mountains		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	be	past	a fissure		there	on one of the mountains	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
4	stand	past	dog not said here	a little hut	the fissure		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in fissure=Destination

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 27, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 13