Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 144
The Soldier got ready and went to the merchant's, who seated him at table, and began plying him with brandy.
Who acts: Soldier, merchant · What happens: get, go, seat, begin, ply · To what, where: merchant, SOLDIER, table
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, merchant), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seated | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seated | nsubj |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seated | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 20 | plying | ply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 plying | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 brandy | case |
| 23 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Soldier | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Soldier not said here | the merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | the merchant | SOLDIER | table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the Soldier not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ply | gerund | the Soldier not said here | SOLDIER | with brandy | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with brandy=Theme |
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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