Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 21
After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home without getting anything, and the peasant went on living merrily—living on and gaining nothing but good.
Who acts: master, peasant · What happens: come, go back, get, go, live, live on · To what, where: end, anything, nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, peasant), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 getting | mark |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 getting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 peasant | det |
| 22 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 living | mark |
| 25 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 went | advcl |
| 26 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 25 living | advmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 living | punct |
| 28 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 living | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 living | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gaining | cc |
| 31 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 living | conj |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 gaining | obj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 good | cc |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nothing | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | to a end; after this case | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | the master | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | the master not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the peasant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | gerund | the peasant not said here | merrily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live on | gerund | the peasant not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | gain | gerund | the peasant not said here | nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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