Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 60
He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it and rinsed it, took it out, put piece to piece exactly the same as the old man had done.
Who acts: pope, old man · What happens: cut, throw, wash, rinse, take out, put · To what, where: sabre, cauldron, piece
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 (pope, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cut | advmod |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 it | det |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cut | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cauldron | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cauldron | det |
| 13 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 washed | punct |
| 15 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 washed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rinsed | cc |
| 18 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 washed | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rinsed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 took | conj |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 piece | mark |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obj |
| 29 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 31 same | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 same | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 put | advcl |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 done | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 done | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 done | aux |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 same | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | pope | sabre | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | throw | past | pope not said here | sabre | into the cauldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into cauldron=Result | |||
| 3 | wash | past | pope not said here | sabre | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rinse | past | pope not said here | sabre | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take out | past | sabre | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | piece | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent piece=Asset piece=Goal | |||||
| 7 | do | past · perfect | the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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