Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 109

So on she went: the pin rolled on, far or near, long or short, it reached a steep mountain; and the girl climbed up and heard cries: “Where are you going?

Who acts: water, pin, girl, you · What happens: go, roll on, reach, climb up, hear · To what, where: pin, steep mountain, cries

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, pin, girl, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pin	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pin	det
7	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pin	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 rolled	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 rolled	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 near	cc
13	near	near	ADV	_	11 far	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pin	amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 short	cc
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 long	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mountain	det
22	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mountain	amod
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 climbed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 climbed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 climbed	nsubj
28	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 climbed	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 heard	cc
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 climbed	conj
32	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heard	obj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
35	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 going	advmod
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 going	aux
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 going	nsubj
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 climbed	advcl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	water	the pin		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll on	participle		the pin not said here	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past	pin	a steep mountain		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
4	climb up	past	the girl			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	the girl not said here	cries		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 32, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 109