Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 87
So the animals at once set to tearing up the Squirrel and Hare, and ate them down to their bones.
Who acts: animals · What happens: tear up, eat down · To what, where: Squirrel, shirts
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), 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 | _ | 16 ate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animals | det |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 set | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 set | advmod |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 tearing | mark |
| 8 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 set | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tearing | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Squirrel | det |
| 11 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tearing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Hare | cc |
| 13 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Squirrel | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 ate | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bones | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bones | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ate | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear up | gerund | the animals at set not said here | the Squirrel and Hare | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location squirrel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat down | past | the animals at set | shirts = shirt | to ANIMALS's bones | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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