Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 67
So the devil turned apprentice, and he lived a month with him, and soon got to know all of the smith’s work better than the master himself; and, whatever the master could not do, he instantly carried out.
Who acts: devil, master, smith · What happens: turn, live, get, know, not do, carry out · To what, where: apprentice, all, whatever
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 (devil, master, smith), 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 | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 got | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 know | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 work | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 smith | det |
| 23 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 smith | case |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 26 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 all | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 master | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 master | det |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 better | obl |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 master | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 do | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 do | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 and | punct |
| 34 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 do | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 master | det |
| 36 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 do | advmod |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 carried | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 carried | nsubj |
| 42 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 43 carried | advmod |
| 43 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | advcl |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 carried | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the devil | apprentice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent apprentice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | DEVIL | month | with father | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | |||
| 3 | get | past | the devil not said here | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | the devil not said here | all of the smith's work | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not do | could | the master | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | carry out | past | master | instantly property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | work | the smith | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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