Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 89
The bear drank up one glass, then another, and broke it.
Who acts: bear · What happens: drink up, break · To what, where: one glass, glass
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 drank | compound:prt |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 glass | nummod |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drank | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 another | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 another | advmod |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 drank | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 broke | cc |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 broke | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink up | past | the bear | one glass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | past | glass | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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