Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 2
So he took one coin and he went to have a little drink at the well.
Who acts: labourer · What happens: take, go, have · To what, where: one coin, little drink, well
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (labourer), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 coin | nummod |
| 5 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drink | amod |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | labourer | one coin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | labourer | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | labourer not said here | a little drink | the well | 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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