Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 85

They were all thrown in, and it was all no good: he had simply wasted all of his malt.

Who acts: well, man · What happens: throw, be, waste · To what, where: workmen, 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 (well, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 thrown	advmod
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 thrown	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 good	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 good	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 good	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thrown	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 wasted	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wasted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wasted	aux
16	simply	simply	ADV	_	17 wasted	advmod
17	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thrown	advcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 wasted	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 malt	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 malt	nmod:poss
21	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 all	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		workmen = workman	all property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	well		all, good property	tree rules
3	waste	past · perfect	man	all of man's malt	simply property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient

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 35, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 85