Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 111

Iván Tsarévich leapt off his horse, put his ear to the grey earth and said, “I hear the talk of people and the hoppety-hop of horses.”

Who acts: Iván, people, horses · What happens: leapt off, put, say, hear, talk, hop · To what, where: horse, ear, talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, people, horses), 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	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leapt	nsubj
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iván	flat
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 leapt	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leapt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leapt	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 earth	amod
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leapt	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
20	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 talk	det
22	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 talk	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hop	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hop	det
27	hoppety	hoppety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hop	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hoppety	punct
29	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 talk	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 horses	case
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hop	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leapt off	past	Iván	Tsar's horse		tree rules
2	put	infinitive	Iván not said here	Tsar's ear	to the grey earth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	Iván not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear in a quote	present	Iván	the talk of people and the hoppety hop of horses		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
5	talk in a quote		people			nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	hop in a quote		horses			nom hop «act intransitive»: of=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 30, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 111