Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 51
Away he goes at once to a _traktir_, or tavern, and sets to work to drown his grief in drink.
Who acts: friend · What happens: go, set, work, drown · To what, where: tavern, grief, drink
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 (friend), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 goes | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 traktir | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 traktir | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 traktir | punct |
| 9 | traktir | traktir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 once | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 once | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tavern | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 tavern | cc |
| 13 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sets | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sets | cc |
| 16 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sets | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drown | mark |
| 20 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 work | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drown | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 drink | case |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drown | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | friend | tavern | away, once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | present | friend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | friend not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drown | to-infinitive | friend not said here | friend's grief | drink | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=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 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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