Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 86

But the elder sister looked out and cried bitterly: “That is not our father; some unknown man is coming along and is dragging our father after him.”

Who acts: elder sister, That, unknown man · What happens: look out, cry, not be, come along, drag · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (elder sister, That, unknown man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 looked	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
12	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 father	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 father	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 father	advmod
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 coming	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 man	det
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coming	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 coming	aux
22	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 looked	advcl
23	along	along	ADV	_	22 coming	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dragging	cc
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dragging	aux
26	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 coming	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dragging	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dragging	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 dragging	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look out	past	the elder sister				vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the elder sister not said here			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	present	That	our father		our nmod:poss	tree rules
4	come along in a quote	present · progressive	some unknown man			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drag in a quote	present · progressive	some unknown man not said here	our father	after man		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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 31, sentence 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 86