Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 61
So the maiden gave him all manner of meat and drink and set them on the table.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: give, drink, set · To what, where: manner, dragon, parents, table
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 (maiden), 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 | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 manner | det |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 meat | case |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 manner | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 drink | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the maiden | all manner of meat | dragon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient manner=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | the maiden not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the maiden not said here | parents = parent | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination |
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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