Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 101
When the knights Alyósha Popóvich and Dobrýnya Nikítich heard this, they dashed out to look, and assured the Prince that this was really so.
Who acts: knights, Alyósha, this · What happens: hear, dash out, look, assure, be · To what, where: this, Prince
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, Alyósha, this), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knights | det |
| 3 | knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Alyósha | flat |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Dobrýnya | cc |
| 7 | Dobrýnya | Dobrýnya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Alyósha | conj |
| 8 | Nikítich | Nikítich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dobrýnya | flat |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dashed | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dashed | nsubj |
| 13 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 dashed | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dashed | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assured | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 assured | cc |
| 19 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dashed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 assured | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | mark |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 so | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 so | cop |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 so | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 assured | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the knights | this | Alyósha and Dobrýnya nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dash out | past | Alyósha | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Alyósha not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | assure | past | Alyósha not said here | the Prince | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | this | so property | tree rules |
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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