Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 13

But before ever she had thought, in front of her stood a table, and on the table were dishes and drinks and refreshments: the only thing that was not there was birds’ milk.

Who acts: damsel, table dishes, only thing · What happens: think, stand, be, thing · To what, where: table, front, table dishes, milk · 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 (damsel, table dishes, only thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 thought	cc
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 thought	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 front	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thing	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 table	det
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dishes	compound
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dishes	cop
21	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thing	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drinks	cc
23	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dishes	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 refreshments	cc
25	refreshments	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dishes	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 milk	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 milk	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 was	advmod
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 milk	cop
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 milk	nmod:poss
36	’	's	PART	_	35 birds	case
37	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thing	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · perfect	damsel			ever	before property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stand	past		a table	front of damsel			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in front=Destination
3	is a	past		table dishes and drinks and refreshments			drinks conj; refreshments conj	tree rules
4	thing		table dishes and drinks and refreshments					tree rules
5	is a	past	the only thing	birds's milk			birds nmod:poss	tree rules

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 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 13