Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 41
Next morning Woe began groaning more than ever, and invited the master of the house to go and drink off the effects of the debauch.
Who acts: Woe · What happens: begin, groan, invite, go, drink off, effect · To what, where: more, master, effects, debauch
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 groaning | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 invited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 invited | cc |
| 11 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 master | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invited | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 master | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 invited | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drink | cc |
| 20 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 drink | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 effects | det |
| 23 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drink | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 debauch | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 debauch | det |
| 26 | debauch | debauch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 effects | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Woe | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | groan | gerund | Woe not said here | more | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | Woe not said here | the master of the house | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Woe not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drink off | infinitive | Woe not said here | the effects of the debauch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | ||||
| 6 | effect | the debauch | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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