Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 72
And the master was not at a loss to ladle beer out of the well for himself, and treated all of his guests right royally.
Who acts: master · What happens: not be, ladle, treat · To what, where: loss, beer, well, all
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 (master), 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 | _ | 8 loss | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loss | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 loss | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 loss | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 loss | det |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ladle | mark |
| 10 | ladle | ladle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loss | acl |
| 11 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ladle | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 well | det |
| 15 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ladle | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 well | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treated | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 treated | cc |
| 20 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ladle | advcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 treated | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 guests | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 guests | nmod:poss |
| 24 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 26 royally | advmod |
| 26 | royally | royally | ADV | _ | 20 treated | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the master | a loss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ladle | to-infinitive | beer | the well for folk | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beer=Theme out well=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | treat | past | all of folk's guests | royally property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient |
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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