Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 106
Well the woman got along, settled all questions, took bribes, and drank spirits at the peasant's expense.
Who acts: woman · What happens: get along, settle, take, drink · To what, where: questions, bribes, spirits, expense
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 questions | det |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 settled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 12 | bribes | bribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drank | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drank | cc |
| 15 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drank | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 expense | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 peasant | det |
| 19 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 expense | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 peasant | case |
| 21 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drank | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get along | past | the woman | along property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | settle | participle | the woman not said here | all questions | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | bribes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drink | past | spirits | the peasant's expense | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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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