Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 110

Then he fills another pail with blood from the old man, slakes his brutal thirst, and says to the peasant, 'It begins to grow light! let us go back to my dwelling.'"

Who acts: stranger, pail, us · What happens: fill, slake, say, begin, grow, let · To what, where: pail, brutal thirst, peasant, light, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, pail, us), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fills	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fills	nsubj
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 pail	det
5	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 blood	case
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pail	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blood	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slakes	punct
13	slakes	slake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fills	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 thirst	nmod:poss
15	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thirst	amod
16	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slakes	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fills	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 peasant	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 peasant	det
22	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 begins	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 begins	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 begins	nsubj
26	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 grow	mark
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 begins	xcomp
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 begins	punct
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 begins	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 dwelling	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 dwelling	nmod:poss
37	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 back	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fills	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 fills	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fills	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	stranger	another pail		then	with blood from the old man	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pail=Patient with blood=Instrument
2	slake	present	stranger not said here	stranger's brutal thirst				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	stranger not said here		the peasant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peasant=Recipient
4	begin	present	pail					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	grow	to-infinitive	pail not said here	light				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
6	let	infinitive	pail not said here	us				tree rules
7	go back	infinitive	us not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
8	thirst		stranger					nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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