Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 134
Then the old father went back home and bade his wife make him a custard; and he sat down on the floor and commanded her to put the pan with the custard on to him.
Who acts: old father, wife, father · What happens: go back, bade, make, sit down, command, put on · To what, where: custard, father, floor, wife, pan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old father, wife, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 home | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bade | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 custard | det |
| 15 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 commanded | cc |
| 25 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sat | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 commanded | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 put | mark |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 commanded | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pan | det |
| 30 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 custard | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 custard | det |
| 33 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 put | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the old father | then | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | bade | past | the old father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | father's wife | a custard | father | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary custard=Product | |||
| 4 | sit down | past | father | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 5 | command | past | father not said here | wife | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put on | to-infinitive | father not said here | the pan | father | with the custard | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pan=Goal |
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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