Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 44
And they went on and on, on and on, and they had nothing to eat or drink.
Who acts: sorts · What happens: go, have, eat, drink · To what, where: nothing
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 (sorts), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 on | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 on | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 on | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 on | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 on | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 drink | cc |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eat | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sorts = sort | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | sorts = sort | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | sorts = sort not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | sorts = sort not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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