Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 124
And then they went home, and there they lived and enjoyed themselves, feasting and revelling, and drinking mead and wine.
Who acts: Snake · What happens: go, live, enjoy, drink · To what, where: Snake, mead
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snake), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lived | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 lived | expl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 enjoyed | cc |
| 12 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 enjoyed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feasting | punct |
| 15 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 revelling | cc |
| 17 | revelling | revelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feasting | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drinking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drinking | cc |
| 20 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 21 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drinking | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wine | cc |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mead | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Snake | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | Snake | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Snake not said here | Snake | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | Snake not said here | mead and wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=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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