Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 59
Well, somehow or other, he got twenty pails and tubs together, put them all round the well, and began to haul them up.
Who acts: crust, you · What happens: get, put, begin, haul up · To what, where: twenty pails, pails
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crust, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 somehow | punct |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 other | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 somehow | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | advcl |
| 9 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pails | nummod |
| 10 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tubs | cc |
| 12 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pails | conj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 well | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 well | det |
| 20 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 haul | mark |
| 25 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 haul | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 haul | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | crust | twenty pails and tubs | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pail=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | put | imperative | you not said here | pails = pail | round the well; somehow property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 3 | begin | past | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | haul up | to-infinitive | you not said here | pails = pail | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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