Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 27

And when the robbers heard Ivan's shout they ran away, and the merchants went by the new road and Ivan by the old one till they met again at Market-Jew.

Who acts: robbers, merchants, Ivan · What happens: hear, run away, go, meet, shout · To what, where: shout, Market Jew

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, merchants, Ivan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shout	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Ivan	case
8	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	acl:relcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 merchants	det
15	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Ivan	cc
22	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 road	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 one	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 met	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 met	nsubj
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	advcl
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 met	advmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 Jew	case
32	Market	Market	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Jew	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Market	punct
34	Jew	Jew	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 met	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the robbers	Ivan's shout				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shout=Stimulus
2	run away	past	robbers = robber	Ivan's shout not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shout=Trajectory
3	go	past	the merchants				by the new road and Ivan; by the old one	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by road=Location
4	meet	past	robbers = robber		Market Jew	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shout		Ivan					nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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