Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 33

Then that same youth came forward who had invited Petrúsha to pay him a visit, and he began to entertain him with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks.

Who acts: same youth, Petrúsha, youth · What happens: come forward, invite, pay, begin, entertain, sort · To what, where: Petrúsha, youth, sweetmeats

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same youth, Petrúsha, youth), 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 came	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 youth	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 youth	amod
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 invited	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 invited	aux
9	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	advcl
10	Petrúsha	Petrúsha	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 invited	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pay	mark
12	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 invited	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pay	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 visit	det
15	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 entertain	mark
21	entertain	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entertain	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 sorts	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 sorts	det
25	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 entertain	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sweetmeats	case
27	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sorts	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drinks	cc
29	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sweetmeats	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come forward	past	that same youth			then	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	invite	past · perfect · passive		Petrúsha			who nsubj:pass	tree rules
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Petrúsha not said here		Petrúsha		a visit obj	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset
4	begin	past	youth					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	entertain	to-infinitive	youth not said here	youth			with all sorts of sweetmeats and drinks	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	sort			sweetmeats and drinks				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 5, sentence 33

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 33