Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 154
They all ate their fill and drank their fill, and then they went out into the courtyard and began rolling about on the grass.
Who acts: guests · What happens: eat, drink, go out, begin, roll about · To what, where: fill, courtyard, grass
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ate | advmod |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fill | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drank | cc |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fill | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 21 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 began | xcomp |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 rolling | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 grass | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grass | det |
| 25 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolling | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | guests = guest | guests's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | guests = guest not said here | guests's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | guests = guest | the courtyard | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | begin | past | guests = guest not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | roll about | gerund | guests = guest not said here | the grass | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=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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