Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 122

Then the Tsarévich leapt down, put his ear to the grey earth, and said, “I hear the talk of people and the thunder of horses’ hooves faster than before.”

Who acts: Tsarévich, I, people, hooves · What happens: leapt down, put, say, hear, talk, thunder · To what, where: 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 (Tsarévich, I, people, hooves), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leapt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarévich	det
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leapt	nsubj
4	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 leapt	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leapt	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 earth	amod
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leapt	parataxis
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	_	27 thunder	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thunder	det
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 people	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 hooves	case
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hooves	nmod:poss
30	’	's	PART	_	29 horses	case
31	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thunder	nmod
32	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 hear	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 before	case
34	before	before	ADV	_	32 faster	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leapt	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leapt down	infinitive	the Tsarévich		then		tree rules
2	put	infinitive	the Tsarévich not said here	Tsarévich's ear		to the grey earth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear in a quote	present	I	the talk of people and the thunder of horses's hooves		fast property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
5	talk in a quote		people and the thunder of horses's hooves				nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	thunder in a quote		horses's hooves				nom thunder «event 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 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 122