Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 7
On the third night the old man gave him three tapers and a ball of pitch; and the pitch was rolled round with hair.
Who acts: old man · What happens: give, roll · To what, where: three tapers, Iván, pitch
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 (old man), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tapers | nummod |
| 11 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ball | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ball | det |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tapers | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pitch | case |
| 16 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ball | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rolled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rolled | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pitch | det |
| 20 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rolled | aux:pass |
| 22 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gave | parataxis |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 22 rolled | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hair | case |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old man | three tapers and a ball of pitch | Iván | night | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient taper=Theme | ||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | the pitch | with hair; round property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hair=Instrument |
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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