Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 53

Now then," he says, "I'll take home a bicker of spirits with me, and go to bed.

Who acts: friend, I, spirits · What happens: say, take, go, bicker · To what, where: bicker, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friend, I, spirits), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 says	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bicker	det
14	bicker	bicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 spirits	case
16	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bicker	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	friend			now; then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	future	I	a bicker of spirits			with me; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bicker=Theme
3	go	infinitive	I not said here		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	bicker		spirits					nom bicker «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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