Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 137
So he got the washing together, baked the cakes, swept the cottage, and was no good for anything.
Who acts: angel · What happens: get, bake, sweep, be · To what, where: washing, cakes, cottage
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 washing | det |
| 5 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 baked | punct |
| 8 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cakes | det |
| 10 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 baked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swept | punct |
| 12 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swept | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 good | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 anything | case |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 good | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | angel | the washing | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bake | participle | angel not said here | the cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 3 | sweep | past | angel not said here | the cottage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | angel not said here | for anything; good 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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