Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 36
And the doughty youths sat down to eat baked gingerbread and to drink strong wines.
Who acts: doughty youths · What happens: sit down, eat, bake, drink · To what, where: baked gingerbread, strong wines
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doughty youths), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youths | det |
| 3 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youths | amod |
| 4 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sat | advcl |
| 9 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gingerbread | amod |
| 10 | gingerbread | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drink | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eat | conj |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wines | amod |
| 15 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drink | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the doughty youths | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the doughty youths not said here | baked gingerbread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gingerbread=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bake | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | the doughty youths not said here | strong wines | 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.
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