Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 17
So they ate the wafers, ate them all up, and they were fully sated, and there were still wafers over.
Who acts: biscuits · What happens: eat, eat up, sate, be, wafer over · To what, where: wafers, biscuits
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 (biscuits), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wafers | det |
| 5 | wafers | wafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 ate | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sated | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sated | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sated | aux:pass |
| 15 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 16 sated | advmod |
| 16 | sated | sate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ate | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 were | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 wafers | advmod |
| 22 | wafers | wafer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | advcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 wafers | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | biscuits = biscuit | the wafers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wafer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past | biscuits = biscuit not said here | wafers = wafer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sate | past · passive | biscuits = biscuit | fully property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | biscuits = biscuit not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wafer over | present | biscuits = biscuit not said here | still | over 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 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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