Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 116
Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and began watching would a young master emerge from the bath.
Who acts: man, young master · What happens: throw, hurl, begin, watch, emerge · To what, where: bones, milk, bath
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, young master), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bones | det |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurled | punct |
| 7 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurled | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 milk | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 milk | det |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 emerge | csubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 emerge | aux |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 master | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 master | amod |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emerge | nsubj |
| 21 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bath | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bath | det |
| 24 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emerge | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | man | the bones | afterwards property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | hurl | past | man not said here | bones = bone | the milk | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into milk=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin | past | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | emerge | would | a young master | the bath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bath=Initial_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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