Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 51
But I was there, and drank wine and mead till my beard was wet.
Who acts: I, beard · What happens: be, drink · To what, where: wine
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beard), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drank | cc |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | parataxis |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mead | cc |
| 10 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wine | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 wet | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beard | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wet | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wet | cop |
| 15 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drank | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | wine and mead | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | my beard | wet 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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