Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 13

And Vertodúb was then very joyous and set to work gaily.

Who acts: Vertodúb · What happens: be, set, work

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vertodúb), 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	_	6 joyous	cc
2	Vertodúb	Vertodúb	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 joyous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joyous	cop
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 joyous	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 joyous	advmod
6	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 joyous	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 work	mark
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 set	xcomp
11	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 joyous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Vertodúb	then	joyous property	tree rules
2	set	infinitive	Vertodúb not said here			tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Vertodúb not said here		gaily property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 23, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 13