Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 55
Iván Tsarévich agreed, and Bába Yagá gave him drink and food and bade him set to work.
Who acts: Iván, Bába, food · What happens: agree, give, drink, set, work · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Bába, food), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 6 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bába | flat |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bade | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Iván | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Bába | horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | Bába not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | set | past | food and bade | horse nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | food and bade not said here | 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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