Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 112
The Soldier drank, but only moderately, and declined to drink any more.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: drink, decline, not drink
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moderately | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 moderately | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 moderately | advmod |
| 7 | moderately | moderately | ADV | _ | 3 drank | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 declined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 declined | cc |
| 10 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 drink | mark |
| 12 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 declined | xcomp |
| 13 | any | any | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 drink | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the Soldier | moderately property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | decline | past | the Soldier not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not drink | to-infinitive | the Soldier 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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