Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 100
And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow, and rushed him out the back way.
Who acts: servants · What happens: scamper up, lay, rush out, hold · To what, where: laid hold, Rich, poor old fellow
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scampered | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 servants | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scampered | nsubj |
| 5 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 scampered | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hold | punct |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hold | amod |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scampered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fellow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fellow | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellow | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellow | amod |
| 14 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rushed | cc |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scampered | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rushed | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 rushed | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | compound |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scampered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper up | participle | all servants | laid hold of the poor old fellow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rush out | past | Rich | the back way obl:unmarked | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hold | the poor old fellow | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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