Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 146

The old man entirely gave up drinking, and to his very last day never took so much as a single drop of spirits.

Who acts: old man · What happens: give up, drink, not take

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gave	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 last	advmod
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 took	advmod
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 drop	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 drop	det
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 drop	amod
22	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 spirits	case
24	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drop	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the old man		entirely property	tree rules
2	drink	gerund	the old man not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not take	past	the old man not said here	day	as a single drop of spirits	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as drop=Attribute

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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