Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 40

And next day he hastened to the well to taste the liquor it contained; but he found nothing but malt and water; not a drop of beer was there.

Who acts: last, liquor, drop · What happens: hasten, taste, contain, find, be · To what, where: well, liquor, nothing · 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 (last, liquor, drop), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 hastened	cc
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hastened	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hastened	nsubj
5	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hastened	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 taste	mark
10	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hastened	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 liquor	det
12	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taste	obj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 contained	nsubj
14	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 liquor	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hastened	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 found	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 malt	cc
21	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 drop	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 drop	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 drop	det
27	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 there	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 beer	case
29	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drop	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 there	cop
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 found	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	last		the well	day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to well=Destination
2	taste	to-infinitive	last not said here	the liquor				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme liquor=Attribute
3	contain	past	liquor	the liquor not said here				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot liquor=Theme
4	find	past	last	nothing				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	is	past	a drop of beer				there property	tree rules

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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