Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 60
So he poured cold water into the glass, put it at the Tsar’s head, and saw that Death was standing at the Tsar’s head.
Who acts: soldier, Death · What happens: pour, put, see, stand · To what, where: cold water, glass, water, head
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 (soldier, Death), 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 | _ | 3 poured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poured | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsar | det |
| 14 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Tsar | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 standing | mark |
| 21 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 standing | aux |
| 23 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tsar | det |
| 26 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Tsar | case |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | soldier | cold water | the glass | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into glass=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | soldier not said here | water | the Tsar's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at head=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | soldier not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | Death | the Tsar's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location |
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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