Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 116
One day a fox came by, and the knight heard him and ran after him.
Who acts: fox, knight · What happens: come by, hear, run · To what, where: fox
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, knight), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come by | past | a fox | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the knight | fox | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the knight not said here | after knight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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