Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 58
They sat down to table together, ate sweetmeats, and drank strong wine.
Who acts: sides · What happens: sit down, eat, drink · To what, where: sweetmeats, strong wine
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 (sides), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 table | mark |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | advcl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ate | punct |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 9 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drank | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drank | cc |
| 12 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wine | amod |
| 14 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drank | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | sides = side | table advcl; down, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | sides = side not said here | sweetmeats | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | sides = side not said here | strong wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/18/58/