Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 179
All of these the host feasted gloriously, but he forgot even so much as to think of his poor brother and his wife; not a thing did he offer them; they had to sit and merely look on at the others eating and drinking.
Who acts: All, host, thing, things, others · What happens: feast, forget, think, not offer, have, sit · To what, where: much, congratulations
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 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 (All, host, thing, things), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 feasted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feasted | nsubj |
| 6 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 6 feasted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 forgot | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feasted | conj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forgot | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 much | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brother | amod |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wife | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brother | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 offer | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 offer | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thing | det |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 offer | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 offer | aux |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 offer | nsubj |
| 31 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forgot | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 offer | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feasted | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 sit | mark |
| 37 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 had | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 look | cc |
| 39 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 40 look | advmod |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sit | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 look | compound:prt |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 others | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 others | det |
| 44 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 look | obl |
| 45 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 others | acl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 drinking | cc |
| 47 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 eating | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past | All | gloriously property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | host | much | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | of host's poor brother and host's wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not offer | past · do-support | a thing | congratulations = congratulation | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | things = thing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sit | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | look on | present | things = thing not said here | at the others; merely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at other=Theme | ||||
| 8 | eat | gerund | the others not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | drink | gerund | the others not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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