Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 53
They also had wine, and I drank it to the very dregs.
Who acts: mead, I · What happens: have, drink · To what, where: wine
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 (mead, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drank | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drank | nsubj |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drank | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dregs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dregs | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 dregs | advmod |
| 13 | dregs | dreg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drank | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mead | wine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | I | wine | to the dregs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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