Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 56
The poor man and the Tsarévna ate and drank at their will, rested them, and went for a walk into the garden.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: eat, drink, rest, go · To what, where: sweets, garden
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 (poor 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tsarévna | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsarévna | det |
| 6 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drank | cc |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 will | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 will | nmod:poss |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drank | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rested | punct |
| 14 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rested | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 walk | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 walk | det |
| 21 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 garden | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the poor man and the Tsarévna | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | the poor man and the Tsarévna not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rest | past | the poor man and the Tsarévna not said here | sweets = sweet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the poor man and the Tsarévna not said here | the garden | for a walk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_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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