Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 54
So the devil took the glass with the water in it and poured it over the soldier’s son, and in that same minute the son became well.
Who acts: devil, son · What happens: take, pour, become · To what, where: glass, water
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 (devil, son), 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 glass | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poured | cc |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 poured | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldier | det |
| 17 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 soldier | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 minute | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 minute | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 minute | amod |
| 25 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 son | det |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 became | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the devil | the glass | water | with the water | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Value in it=Location | ||
| 2 | pour | past | the devil not said here | glass | over the soldier's son | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past | the son | minute | well property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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