Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
But the peasants beat them all into the fire as they came out, and did not let a single worm escape.
Who acts: peasants, jackdaws · What happens: beat, come out, not let · To what, where: jackdaws, fire, single worm escape
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, jackdaws), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 beat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasants | det |
| 3 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 let | advmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 escape | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 escape | amod |
| 21 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | compound |
| 22 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the peasants | jackdaws = jackdaw | the fire | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into fire=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come out | past | jackdaws = jackdaw | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not let | past · do-support | a single worm escape | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=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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