Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 132
But all the work was already done, and the doll had sifted out the very last of the ears of oats.
What happens: do, sift out · To what, where: work, doll
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 done | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 work | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 work | det |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sifted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sifted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doll | det |
| 11 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sifted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sifted | aux |
| 13 | sifted | sift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 done | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 last | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 last | advmod |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sifted | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ears | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ears | det |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 last | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 oats | case |
| 22 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ears | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | all work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sift out | past · perfect · passive | the doll | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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