Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
He used to go to the drinking-booth, drink green wine, and crawl away home through the hops.
Who acts: man · What happens: use, go, drink, crawl away · To what, where: drinking booth, green wine, hops
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 booth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 booth | det |
| 7 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 booth | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 drinking | punct |
| 9 | booth | booth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wine | amod |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drink | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crawl | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crawl | cc |
| 16 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 crawl | advmod |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 crawl | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 hops | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hops | det |
| 21 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crawl | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | man | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | man not said here | the drinking booth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to booth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | man not said here | green wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crawl away | present | man not said here | the hops | away, home property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hop=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/5/4/