Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 94

They put all the money into three little piles, and the pope looked on, and said: “What do you mean?

Who acts: morsels, pope, you · What happens: put, look on, say, mean · To what, where: money, three little piles · 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 (morsels, pope, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 piles	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 piles	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 piles	amod
9	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pope	det
13	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 mean	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 mean	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 mean	obj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mean	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 mean	nsubj
24	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	morsels = morsel	all money	three little piles		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal
2	look on	past	the pope				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	past	morsels = morsel not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you			What obj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 94