Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 46

He put one round of bread to his cheek and piled one on another; on his tongue he put an entire swan, and he thrust off all the pastry and swallowed it all at a gulp.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: put, pile, thrust, swallow · To what, where: one round, one, another, entire swan, tongue, swan

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 round	nummod
4	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bread	case
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 round	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cheek	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cheek	nmod:poss
9	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 piled	cc
11	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 piled	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 tongue	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	nsubj
20	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 swan	det
22	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 swan	amod
23	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thrust	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thrust	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thrust	nsubj
27	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
28	off	off	ADP	_	31 pastry	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 pastry	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pastry	det
31	pastry	pastry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thrust	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swallowed	cc
33	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 put	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swallowed	obj
35	all	all	ADV	_	38 gulp	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 gulp	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 gulp	det
38	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 swallowed	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Prince	one round of bread		to Prince's cheek	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent round=Goal
2	pile	past	Prince not said here	one	another		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme on another=Destination
3	put	past	Prince	a entire swan	Prince's tongue		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent swan=Theme on tongue=Destination
4	thrust		Prince			off all pastry	tree rules
5	swallow	past	Prince not said here	swan		a gulp advcl	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 46