Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 120

"Whatever have you come here for, good youth? here devils abide, they will tear you to pieces."

Who acts: Whatever, devils, feet · What happens: come, abide, tear · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whatever, devils, feet), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 youth	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 youth	amod
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
13	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 abide	nsubj
14	abide	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tear	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tear	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tear	aux
18	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 abide	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tear	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tear	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	Whatever		here; here	for good youth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	abide in a quote	present	devils				tree rules
3	tear in a quote	future	feet = foot	you		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to piece=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 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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