Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 12

Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but the loaves got no smaller.

Who acts: biscuits, each, loaves · What happens: eat away, eat, get · To what, where: loaves, fill, smaller

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (biscuits, each, loaves), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 loaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loaves	det
8	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ate	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 each	nmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fill	nmod:poss
15	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 loaves	det
19	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ate	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 smaller	det
22	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 got	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat away	past	biscuits = biscuit		the loaves	away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	each	man's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
3	get	past	the loaves	no smaller			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer small=Stimulus

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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