Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 52
In the evening, as he was going out of the shop, the merchant’s son went up to the foal, and he saw that there stood his good horse on tip-toes and in tears.
Who acts: Iván, son · What happens: go out, go up, see, stand · To what, where: shop, good horse, tip toes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iván, son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 evening | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shop | det |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 foal | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foal | det |
| 22 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saw | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 stood | mark |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 stood | advmod |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 saw | ccomp |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 horse | nmod:poss |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 horse | amod |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 toes | case |
| 34 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 toes | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 tip | punct |
| 36 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stood | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tears | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 tears | case |
| 39 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 toes | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · progressive | Iván | the shop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | the merchant's son | evening | to the foal | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | see | past | Iván | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | Iván's good horse | tip toes and tears; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on toe=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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