Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets filled with wine, but Danílo good hard blows; and on great feast days every one was sated, but Danílo had nothing.

Who acts: Vladímir, Danílo · What happens: use, give, fill, blow, sate, have · To what, where: servants goblets, one, 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 (Vladímir, Danílo), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 used	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Sundays	case
3	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 used	obl
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Vladímir	nmod:desc
5	Vladímir	Vladímir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 goblets	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 servants	nmod:poss
11	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 goblets	compound
12	goblets	goblet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	obj
13	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 goblets	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 wine	case
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blows	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 blows	cc
18	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 blows	nsubj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blows	amod
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blows	amod
21	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sated	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 days	case
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 days	compound
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sated	obl
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sated	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sated	aux:pass
31	sated	sate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
34	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sated	conj
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 had	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Vladímir Prince		sunday		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give	to-infinitive	Vladímir Prince not said here	all servants goblets			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme
3	fill	participle		all servants goblets not said here		with wine	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wine=Instrument
4	blow		Danílo				tree rules
5	sate	past · passive		every one	day		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	have	past	Danílo	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 4, sentence 24

The tree

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 24