Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 106
The old man set to and gourmandised, making the best of it.
Who acts: old man set · What happens: gourmandis, make
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man set), 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 | 4 set | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gourmandised | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 gourmandised | case |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gourmandised | cc |
| 7 | gourmandised | gourmandis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gourmandised | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 best | det |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 making | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 best | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gourmandised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gourmandis | past | the old man set | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the old man set not said here | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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