Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 99

So they went outside to the fields, scattered it according to its nature on the peasant’s lots; and lo and behold! they went and threw all the grains on the white snow—every single grain.

Who acts: midst · What happens: go, scatter, accord, throw · To what, where: single grain, fields, feast, lots, grains, white snow

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 (midst), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scattered	punct
9	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scattered	obj
11	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 nature	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 according	fixed
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nature	nmod:poss
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scattered	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 lots	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 peasant	det
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lots	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 peasant	case
19	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scattered	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lo	cc
22	lo	lo	INTJ	_	27 went	discourse
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 behold	cc
24	behold	behold	INTJ	_	22 lo	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 lo	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 grains	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grains	det
32	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 threw	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 snow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 snow	det
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 snow	amod
36	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 grain	punct
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 grain	det
39	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grain	amod
40	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	midst	every single grain	the fields	outside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location
2	scatter	past	midst not said here	feast	the peasant's lots	accord feast's nature	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lot=Destination
3	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	midst				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw	past	midst not said here	all grains	the white snow		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent grain=Theme on snow=Destination

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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 99