Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 117
I was there and I drank beer; I drank the beer, and it flowed up to my whiskers, but none of it reached my mouth.
Who acts: I, beer, none · What happens: be, drink, flow up, reach · To what, where: beer, mouth
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beer, none), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 drank | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drank | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 drank | nsubj |
| 6 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drank | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 drank | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 drank | nsubj |
| 10 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beer | det |
| 12 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drank | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flowed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flowed | nsubj |
| 16 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drank | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 flowed | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whiskers | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flowed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reached | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 reached | cc |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 none | nmod |
| 26 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drank | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reached | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | I | beer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | I | the beer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flow up | past | beer | to my whiskers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | none of beer | my mouth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
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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