Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 76
When I took your three pecks from you I simply went and threw them into the well.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, go, throw · To what, where: three pecks, pecks, well
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 (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pecks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pecks | nummod |
| 6 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 well | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 well | det |
| 17 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | your three pecks | from you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent peck=Theme from you=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | I | simply property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | I not said here | pecks = peck | into the well result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into well=Result |
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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