Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 26

So next day the father got up very early, stood outside the gates, and the first thing that met him was a peasant who was selling a sorry, scabby foal—mere dog’s meat.

Who acts: father, first thing, peasant · What happens: get up, stand, meet, be, sell · To what, where: gates, father, peasant, sorry scabby foal

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, first thing, peasant), 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	_	6 got	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 early	advmod
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 got	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
12	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 gates	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gates	det
14	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 peasant	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 peasant	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peasant	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 met	nsubj
21	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 met	obj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 peasant	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 peasant	det
25	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 selling	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 selling	aux
28	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 peasant	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 foal	det
30	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 foal	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
32	scabby	scabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 foal	amod
33	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 selling	obj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 meat	punct
35	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dog	amod
36	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 meat	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 dog	case
38	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 foal	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the father			day	early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand	past	the father not said here		the gates			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside gate=Location
3	meet	past	the first thing	father				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	is a	past	the first thing	a peasant				tree rules
5	sell	past · progressive	a peasant	a sorry scabby foal and mere dog's meat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=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 28, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 26