Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 36

Then she ran under the sea and neighed, and the sea opened and up ran forty-one foals; and they were such fine foals, every single horse was better than every other horse.

Who acts: mare, sea, foals, single horse · What happens: run, neigh, open, be · To what, where: sea, one foals, such fine foals

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, sea, foals, single horse), 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	3 ran	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 neighed	cc
8	neighed	neigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
15	up	up	ADV	_	16 ran	advmod
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 opened	conj
17	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 forty	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 foals	nummod
20	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ran	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 foals	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 foals	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 foals	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 foals	cop
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 foals	amod
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 foals	amod
27	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 better	punct
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 horse	det
30	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 horse	amod
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 better	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 better	cop
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 foals	conj
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 horse	case
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 horse	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 horse	amod
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 better	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	mare		the sea	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Trajectory
2	neigh	participle	mare not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	past	the sea					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	the sea not said here	one foals				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Agent
5	is a	past	foals = foal	such fine foals				tree rules
6	is	past	every single horse				than every other horse; good 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 36

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 36