Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 92
He so badly wanted to know, and so he took the red coffer, put it on the ground and opened it, and out of it all sorts of cattle came out, so many that the eye could not count, and they almost filled the entire island.
Who acts: eagle, red coffer, cattle, eye, coffers · What happens: want, know, take, put, open, come out · To what, where: red coffer, way, ground, entire island, cattle
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, red coffer, cattle, eye), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coffer | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coffer | amod |
| 14 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 coffer | acl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 opened | cc |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 opened | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 came | cc |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | obl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sorts | det |
| 30 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 came | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cattle | case |
| 32 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sorts | nmod |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 many | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 many | advmod |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 came | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 count | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 eye | det |
| 40 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 count | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 count | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 count | advmod |
| 43 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 many | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 filled | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 filled | cc |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 filled | nsubj |
| 47 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 48 filled | advmod |
| 48 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 island | det |
| 50 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 island | amod |
| 51 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 filled | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | eagle | badly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | eagle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | take | past | eagle | the red coffer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the red coffer not said here | way | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 5 | open | past | eagle not said here | way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | cattle | way | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | not count | could | the eye | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | fill | past | coffers = coffer | the entire island | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient | |||
| 9 | sort | cattle | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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