Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 132

So the daughter prepared the custard; the Sun sat down in the middle of the floor, and his wife put the pan on him and the custard was soon cooked.

Who acts: daughter, Sun, wife · What happens: prepare, sit down, put, cook · To what, where: custard, middle, pan

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Sun, wife), 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	_	4 prepared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prepared	nsubj
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 custard	det
6	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prepared	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prepared	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prepared	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pan	det
24	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cooked	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 custard	det
29	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cooked	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cooked	aux:pass
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 cooked	advmod
32	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 put	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	the daughter	the custard			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custard=Patient
2	sit down	past	the Sun		the middle of the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	put	past	man's wife	the pan		on man	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on he=Destination
4	cook	past · passive		the custard		soon property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 37, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 132