Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 127
The old man put his hand into his breast and drew out a pack of cards, saying: “Take them.
Who acts: old man · What happens: put, draw out, say, take · To what, where: hand, breast, pack, cards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 breast | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drew | cc |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 drew | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pack | det |
| 14 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cards | case |
| 16 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pack | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drew | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 21 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the old man | man's hand | man's breast | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | draw out | past | the old man not said here | a pack of cards | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | cards = card | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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