Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 8
So the peasant and Sorrow went into the inn, and they drank up the half-fur.
Who acts: peasant, half · What happens: go, drink up · To what, where: inn, half fur
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 (peasant, half), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Sorrow | cc |
| 5 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peasant | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 inn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inn | det |
| 9 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drank | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drank | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drank | nsubj |
| 13 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 drank | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fur | det |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 fur | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 half | punct |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drank | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the peasant and Sorrow | the inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | drink up | past | half | the half fur | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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