Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 6
She spread out the chequered table-cloths and put sugary food and honeyed drink for him to eat.
Who acts: wife · What happens: spread out, chequer, put, honey, eat · To what, where: chequered table cloths, sugary food, drink
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 spread | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cloths | det |
| 5 | chequered | chequer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cloths | amod |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloths | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 table | punct |
| 8 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spread | conj |
| 11 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honeyed | cc |
| 14 | honeyed | honey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | conj |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honeyed | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 honeyed | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 honeyed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | past | wife | the chequered table cloths | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chequer | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | wife not said here | sugary food | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal | ||||
| 4 | honey | past | wife not said here | drink | for KNIGHT | tree rules | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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