Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 121

The little skiff sailed up to the shore; the grandfather took the fish and fed his little boy, changed his shirt and sash and sent him out again to catch fish.

Who acts: little skiff, grandfather · What happens: sail up, take, feed, change, send out, catch · To what, where: shore, fish, little boy, shirt, grandfather

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little skiff, grandfather), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skiff	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skiff	amod
3	skiff	skiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sailed	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grandfather	det
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sailed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fish	det
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fed	cc
16	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 boy	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
21	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shirt	nmod:poss
23	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sash	cc
25	sash	sash	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shirt	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sent	cc
27	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 sent	compound:prt
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 sent	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 catch	mark
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sent	advcl
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 catch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sail up	past	the little skiff			the shore		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory
2	take	past	the grandfather		the fish			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
3	feed	past	the grandfather not said here		grandfather's little boy			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
4	change	past	the grandfather not said here	grandfather's shirt and sash				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
5	send out	past	the grandfather not said here	grandfather			again	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	catch	to-infinitive	the grandfather not said here	fish				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 121