Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 154
So he took only one little coin, put it into the hollow of his hand and thought he would have a little drink.
Who acts: master · What happens: take, put, think, have · To what, where: one little coin, coin, hollow, little drink · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 coin | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coin | amod |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hollow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hollow | det |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hollow | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 drink | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 drink | amod |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | master | one little coin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | master not said here | coin | the hollow of master's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | master not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | would | master | a little drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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