Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 54
And to-morrow morning, as soon as they come to fetch me to be hanged, I'll toss off half the bickerful.
Who acts: spirits, I · What happens: come, fetch, hange, toss off · To what, where: me
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 (spirits, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 come | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fetch | mark |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fetch | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hanged | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hanged | aux:pass |
| 17 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fetch | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 toss | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 toss | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 toss | aux |
| 21 | toss | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | parataxis |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 toss | compound:prt |
| 23 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 25 bickerful | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bickerful | det |
| 25 | bickerful | bickerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 toss | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | spirits = spirit | morning | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | spirits = spirit not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | spirits = spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | toss off | future | I | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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 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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