Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 28
The little mouse took his coat: the beetle cleaned his boots, and the sheat-fish drove away the flies.
Who acts: little mouse, beetle, sheat fish · What happens: take, clean, drive away · To what, where: coat, boots, flies
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 (little mouse, beetle, sheat fish), 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 mouse | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouse | amod |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 cleaned | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beetle | det |
| 9 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cleaned | nsubj |
| 10 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boots | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cleaned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drove | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 16 | sheat | sheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fish | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sheat | punct |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drove | nsubj |
| 19 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cleaned | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 drove | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flies | det |
| 22 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drove | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the little mouse | mouse's coat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clean | past | the beetle | mouse's boots | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive away | past | the sheat fish | the flies | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
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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