Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 77

I'll go to the graveyard, dig a grave as I best can, and bury the old woman myself."

Who acts: I · What happens: go, dig, bury · To what, where: graveyard, grave, old woman

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 graveyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 graveyard	det
6	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dig	punct
8	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dig	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 can	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 can	nsubj
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 can	amod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dig	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bury	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bury	cc
17	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bury	obj
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 bury	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I		the graveyard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial_Location
2	dig	infinitive	I not said here	a grave			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
3	bury	infinitive	I not said here	the old woman		myself obl:unmarked	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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