Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 107

He ate the entire ox, and he drank the three casks of beer, croaked and said, “That was a small gift: still I cannot help it.

Who acts: Ho, That · What happens: eat, drink, croak, say, be, not help · To what, where: entire ox, three casks, small gift, beer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ho, That), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ox	det
4	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ox	amod
5	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drank	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drank	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drank	nsubj
9	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 casks	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 casks	nummod
12	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drank	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 beer	case
14	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 casks	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 croaked	punct
16	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drank	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 croaked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gift	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 gift	punct
21	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 gift	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gift	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gift	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gift	amod
25	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
27	still	still	ADV	_	31 help	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 help	advmod
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gift	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	past	Ho	the entire ox		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
2	drink	past	Ho	the three casks of beer		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Patient
3	croak	past	Ho not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Ho not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	past	That	a small gift		tree rules
6	not help in a quote	can	Ho	beer	still	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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 34, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 107