Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 144
Two old beggars came up, and she gave them to eat and to drink.
Who acts: Two old beggars, many · What happens: come up, give, eat, drink · To what, where: tears
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 (Two old beggars, many), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 beggars | nummod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beggars | amod |
| 3 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drink | mark |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Two old beggars | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | many | tears = tear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | many not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | many not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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