Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 11
Then the servant had a sack sewn, and the Prince put into it, and cast him into the water.
Who acts: servant, Prince · What happens: have, sew, put, cast · To what, where: sack, Prince, water
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sack | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cast | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cast | cc |
| 17 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cast | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cast | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the servant | a sack | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | |||
| 2 | sew | participle | a sack not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put | past | the Prince | sack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cast | infinitive | the servant not said here | Prince | the water | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into water=Product |
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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