Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 168

The Miller received him cordially, and at once brought out liquor; and the two began drinking, and chattering about their ways and doings.

Who acts: Miller, two · What happens: receive, bring out, begin, drink, chatter · To what, where: soldier, liquor

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, two), 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 Miller	det
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	cordially	cordially	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 brought	obl
10	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 received	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 brought	compound:prt
12	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 two	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
18	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chattering	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chattering	cc
21	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 drinking	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 ways	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ways	nmod:poss
24	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chattering	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 doings	cc
26	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ways	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the Miller	soldier	cordially property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	bring out	participle		liquor		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient
3	begin	past	the two			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	drink	gerund	the two not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	chatter	gerund	the two not said here		about friends's ways and doings	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about way=Topic

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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