Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 84
The Evil Spirit took the money, and sent the coachman into the village to get two buckets of milk.
Who acts: Evil Spirit · What happens: take, send, get · To what, where: money, coachman, village, two buckets
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 (Evil Spirit), 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 | 3 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Spirit | compound |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coachman | det |
| 11 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 buckets | nummod |
| 18 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 milk | case |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buckets | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Evil Spirit | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Evil Spirit not said here | the coachman | the village | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the Evil Spirit not said here | two buckets of milk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bucket=Stimulus |
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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