Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 91
One day he made a cake and put it into the oven, so the cooks put poison in and spread it over the cake.
Who acts: cook, cooks · What happens: make, put, spread · To what, where: cake, oven, poison
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 (cook, cooks), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 oven | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oven | det |
| 12 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 put | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cooks | det |
| 16 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 18 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 put | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spread | cc |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spread | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 cake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cake | det |
| 25 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spread | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | cook | a cake | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | cook not said here | cake | the oven | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | put | past | the cooks | poison | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent poison=Goal | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | the cooks not said here | poison | the cake | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over cake=Destination |
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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