Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 117
Suddenly, just as though he had grown out of the earth, an old man came to meet him.
Who acts: Devil, old man · What happens: grow out, come, meet · To what, where: earth, Devil
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil, old 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 grown | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 grown | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 grown | advmod |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 grown | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grown | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grown | aux |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grown | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 earth | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow out | past · perfect | Devil | the earth | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location earth=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | a old man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | a old man not said here | Devil | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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