Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 160
He drank it off--and a hundred years passed away.
Who acts: man, hundred years · What happens: drink off, pass away · To what, where: cup
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (man, hundred years), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 drank | compound:prt |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 years | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drank | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink off | past | man | cup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass away | participle | a hundred years | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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