Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 139
So she put the pan on him, and the custard stood there for ages and was not ever cooked, only turned sour.
Who acts: wife, custard · What happens: put, stand, not cook, turn · To what, where: 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 (wife, custard), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pan | det |
| 5 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 custard | det |
| 11 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ages | case |
| 15 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cooked | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cooked | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cooked | advmod |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 cooked | advmod |
| 20 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 put | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 turned | advmod |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cooked | conj |
| 24 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 turned | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | wife | the pan | on Crow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the custard | there | for ages | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for age=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not cook | past · passive | wife not said here | ever | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | turn | participle | wife not said here | sour property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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