Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 87
When the two tubs of milk came, he emptied them into a pail, collected all the bones, and threw them into the milk.
Who acts: two tubs, spirit · What happens: come, empty, collect, throw · To what, where: tubs, pail, bones, milk
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 (two tubs, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tubs | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tubs | nummod |
| 4 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 milk | case |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tubs | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 emptied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 emptied | nsubj |
| 10 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 collected | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 emptied | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pail | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pail | det |
| 14 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emptied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 collected | punct |
| 16 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 bones | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bones | det |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 collected | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 collected | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 milk | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 milk | det |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the two tubs of milk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | empty | past | spirit | tubs = tub | a pail | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pail=Destination | |||
| 3 | collect | past | all bones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw | past | bones = bone | into the milk result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into milk=Result |
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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