Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 91
The Vixen ate up the flesh and kept the heart and the bowels.
Who acts: Vixen · What happens: eat up, keep · To what, where: flesh, heart
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 (Vixen), 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 | 2 Vixen | det |
| 2 | Vixen | Vixen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ate | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flesh | det |
| 6 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bowels | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bowels | det |
| 13 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heart | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past | the Vixen | the flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the Vixen not said here | the heart and the bowels | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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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