Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 15
The poor nobleman took a single goblet from under his nose, poured out the wine, and put the cup into his pocket.
Who acts: poor nobleman · What happens: take, pour out, put · To what, where: single goblet, nose, wine, cup, pocket
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: who acts (poor 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nobleman | amod |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 goblet | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 goblet | amod |
| 7 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 nose | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 nose | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poured | punct |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 poured | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wine | det |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 poured | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 pocket | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl | ||
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the poor nobleman | a single goblet | nobleman's nose | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme from nose=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pour out | participle | the wine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the cup | nobleman's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cup=Goal |
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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