Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 24
I drank honey and mead, which came up to my moustache, but never entered my mouth.
Who acts: I, mead · What happens: drink, come up, not enter · To what, where: honey, moustache, mouth
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 (I, mead), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drank | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mead | cc |
| 5 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honey | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mead | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 moustache | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 moustache | nmod:poss |
| 12 | moustache | moustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entered | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 entered | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 entered | advmod |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | I | honey and mead | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | mead | my moustache | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moustache=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not enter | past | I not said here | my mouth | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=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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