Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 155
Then one of the princesses brought sleeping-drugs in wine and asked him to drink her health.
What happens: bring, sleep, ask, drink · To what, where: drugs, wine, nobleman, health
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brought | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princesses | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princesses | det |
| 5 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obl |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 brought | xcomp |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 drugs | punct |
| 9 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sleeping | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wine | case |
| 11 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drugs | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 health | nmod:poss |
| 18 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | of the princesses; one advcl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | drugs | wine | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent drug=Value in wine=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | nobleman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bábushka's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient |
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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