Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 121
So the younger brother filled his skirt with gold, and the cook was contented with this and he set them free.
Who acts: younger brother, dove · What happens: fill, content, set · To what, where: skirt, cook, brothers
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 (younger brother, dove), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 contented | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 contented | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cook | det |
| 13 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 contented | aux:pass |
| 15 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 contented | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 contented | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the younger brother | dove's skirt | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skirt=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 2 | content | past · passive | the cook | with this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | set | past | dove | brothers = brother | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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