Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 35

Next morning the old man told his guest to borrow a number of tubs, and fill them with liquor drawn from the well, and then to make his neighbors assemble and drink it.

Who acts: old man, neighbors · What happens: tell, borrow, fill, draw, make, assemble · To what, where: guest, number, man, liquor, neighbor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (old man, neighbors), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 guest	nmod:poss
8	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 borrow	mark
10	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borrow	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 tubs	case
14	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 number	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fill	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fill	cc
17	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 borrow	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fill	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 liquor	case
20	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fill	obl
21	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 liquor	acl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 well	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 well	det
24	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drawn	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 make	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neighbors	nmod:poss
31	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 assemble	nsubj
32	assemble	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drink	cc
34	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 assemble	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 drink	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		guest's guest	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient clause=Topic
2	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a number of tubs				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
3	fill	infinitive	the old man not said here	man			with liquor	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with liquor=Instrument
4	draw	participle		liquor not said here			from the well	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from well=Co-Patient
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive				then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	assemble	present	guest's neighbors					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drink	present	guest's neighbors not said here	neighbor				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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