Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 129
And one day it happened that there was a festival in the Church, and the peasants began brewing beer for the feast.
Who acts: it, festival, peasants · What happens: happen, be, begin, brew · To what, where: beer
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 (it, festival, peasants), 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 | _ | 5 happened | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 festival | det |
| 10 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Church | det |
| 13 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 festival | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasants | det |
| 17 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 19 | brewing | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brewing | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 feast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 feast | det |
| 23 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brewing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a festival in the Church | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the peasants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | brew | gerund | the peasants not said here | beer | for the feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beer=Product for feast=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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