Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 10
The old man went and collected the eggs and put a brood hen over them.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go, collect, put · To what, where: eggs, brood hen
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 collected | cc |
| 6 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eggs | det |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 collected | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 collected | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 12 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hen | compound |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | the old man not said here | the eggs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the old man not said here | a brood hen | over man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme over they=Destination |
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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