Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 79
The soldier took them, thanked him, and then went home, and gave his family a feast.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: take, thank, go, give · To what, where: roubles, Soldier, family
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thanked | punct |
| 6 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thanked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the soldier | roubles = rouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the soldier not said here | Soldier | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the soldier not said here | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | past | the soldier not said here | Soldier's family | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient feast=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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