Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 101
So he took a handful of gold out of his wallet and gave it to the sentry as a tip.
Who acts: sentry · What happens: take, give · To what, where: gold, wallet, handful, sentry
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sentry), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handful | det |
| 5 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handful | nmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 wallet | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wallet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sentry | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sentry | det |
| 17 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 tip | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tip | det |
| 20 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sentry | gold | sentry's wallet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out wallet=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | sentry not said here | handful | the sentry | as a tip | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sentry=Recipient |
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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