Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 73
So they took him in, fed him with milk, gave him bread, and asked him only to taste the things.
Who acts: BEAR · What happens: take, feed, give, ask, taste · To what, where: mistress, bread, things
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 (BEAR), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fed | punct |
| 7 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fed | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 milk | case |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 taste | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 taste | mark |
| 21 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 taste | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | BEAR | mistress | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feed | past | BEAR not said here | mistress | with milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past | BEAR not said here | bread | mistress | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | BEAR not said here | mistress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | BEAR not said here | the things | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute |
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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