Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 125
I was there, too, and had liquor to drink; it didn't go into my mouth, but only ran down my beard.
Who acts: I, liquor · What happens: be, have, drink, not go, run down · To what, where: liquor, mouth, beard
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 (I, liquor), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 9 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 liquor | acl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 ran | compound:prt |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beard | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | liquor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | liquor not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not go | past · do-support | liquor | my mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | run down | past | liquor not said here | my beard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beard=Trajectory |
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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