Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 156
He could not refuse, and so he took the goblet, turned to the wall, and poured it into the bed.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: not refuse, take, turn, pour · To what, where: goblet, wall, bed
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: who acts (nobleman), 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 | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 refuse | advmod |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goblet | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 poured | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 poured | cc |
| 19 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 poured | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 poured | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | could | nobleman | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | nobleman | the goblet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | participle | the goblet not said here | the wall | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pour | past | goblet | the bed | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into bed=Destination |
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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