Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 6
And he held it up to his ears and drank it all through.
Who acts: Ídolishche · What happens: hold up, drink · To what, where: cauldron
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ídolishche), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drank | cc |
| 10 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drank | obj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 through | advmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADV | _ | 10 drank | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | Ídolishche = ídolishche | cauldron | to Ídolishche's ears | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | past | Ídolishche = ídolishche not said here | cauldron | through property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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