Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 14

He entered the hut and looked, and there was the Wood Sprite rolling on a bench, absolutely out of breath, and beside him a maiden who was weeping bitterly.

Who acts: dog, Wood Sprite, maiden · What happens: enter, look, be, roll, weep · To what, where: hut, Wood Sprite, bench

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, Wood Sprite, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hut	det
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sprite	det
12	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sprite	compound
13	Sprite	Sprite	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl
14	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 Sprite	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bench	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bench	det
17	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 breath	punct
19	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	22 breath	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 breath	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 breath	case
22	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 maiden	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 maiden	cc
25	beside	beside	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 maiden	nmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 maiden	det
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	parataxis
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 weeping	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 weeping	aux
31	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 maiden	acl:relcl
32	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	31 weeping	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	dog	the hut		a maiden beside Sprite parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	look	past	dog not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	be	past		the Wood Sprite	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roll	gerund	the Wood Sprite not said here		a bench	out breath	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on bench=Trajectory
5	weep	past · progressive	a maiden beside Sprite			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 14