Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 56
And the devil presented him with the glass, and the soldier returned him the undertaking.
Who acts: devil, soldier · What happens: present, return · To what, where: soldier, son
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, soldier), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 presented | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 returned | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 undertaking | det |
| 16 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the devil | soldier | with the glass | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with glass=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | the soldier | son | the undertaking obj | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme undertaking=Eventuality |
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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