Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 102

She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him to sleep; and thus Mark the Rich had never found the Lord for whom he was waiting.

Who acts: woman, Rich · What happens: take, feed, give, drink, lay, sleep · To what, where: Rich, Mark

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Rich), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drink	mark
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 laid	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Mark	cc
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	22 Mark	advmod
22	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 found	nsubj:pass
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Rich	det
24	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mark	appos
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 found	advmod
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lord	det
29	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 whom	case
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 found	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 waiting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 waiting	aux
34	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 whom	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	woman		Rich		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	feed	past	woman not said here		Rich		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	give	past	woman not said here		Rich		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay	past	woman not said here	Rich			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
6	sleep	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not find	past · perfect · passive		Mark		the Lord obj; whom obl	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme lord=Attribute
8	wait	past · progressive	Rich				vn exist-47.1 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 102