Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 18

So he went to the church, attended Matins and Mass, turned back and again broke his fast, ate and drank as well, went outside the door and sat at the counter.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, attend, turn back, break, eat, drink · To what, where: church, Matins, fast, door, counter

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 attended	punct
8	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	Matins	matin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 attended	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mass	cc
11	Mass	Mass	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Matins	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 turned	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 broke	cc
16	again	again	ADV	_	17 broke	advmod
17	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fast	nmod:poss
19	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 broke	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drank	cc
23	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ate	conj
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	23 drank	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
28	outside	outside	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 counter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 counter	det
35	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	man		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	attend	past	man not said here	Matins and Mass			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme matin=Goal
3	turn back	past	man not said here				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	break	past	man not said here	man's fast		again	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fast=Patient
5	eat	past	man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past			the door		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside door=Location
8	sit	past			the counter		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at counter=Location

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 18