Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 114
When supper-time came, the hen was put on the table, but when the apprentice saw that both the head and the liver were missing he was very angry, quarrelled with the old woman and went home.
Who acts: supper time, apprentice, head · What happens: come, put, see, miss, be, go · To what, where: hen, table
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 (supper time, apprentice, head), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 supper | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hen | det |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 apprentice | det |
| 18 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 missing | mark |
| 21 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 23 head | cc:preconj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 missing | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 liver | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 liver | det |
| 26 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 missing | aux |
| 28 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 angry | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 angry | cop |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 angry | advmod |
| 32 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 missing | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 quarrelled | punct |
| 34 | quarrelled | quarrelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 angry | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 woman | amod |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 quarrelled | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 went | cc |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | supper time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | the hen | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the apprentice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | miss | past · progressive | the head and the liver | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | head | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | head not said here | with the old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | past | the apprentice not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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