Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 112

They filled up the plates and again emptied them, and they went on filling plates until there was not any money left: but there were ever so many plates over.

Who acts: neighbour, money, many plates · What happens: fill up, empty, go, be, leave · To what, where: plates, neighbour, filling plates, money

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, money, many plates), 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 filled	nsubj
2	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 filled	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plates	det
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 filled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 emptied	cc
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 emptied	advmod
8	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 emptied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 plates	case
15	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plates	compound
16	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 money	advmod
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 money	det
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 money	acl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 were	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 were	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 were	expl
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 over	cop
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 were	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plates	amod
31	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 over	nsubj
32	over	over	ADV	_	2 filled	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	past	neighbour	the plates				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
2	empty	past	neighbour not said here	neighbour		again		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
3	go	past	neighbour		filling plates			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on plate=Location
4	be	past	any money		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	participle		any money not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	many plates				over property	tree rules

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 22, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 112