Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 16

"Well, see for yourselves," said he, tossing up the head to them.

Who acts: Diachok · What happens: see, say, toss up · To what, where: head, horns · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diachok), 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	_	4 see	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 yourselves	case
6	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tossing	punct
12	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 tossing	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 head	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tossing	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tossing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive				for yourselves	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Diachok				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	toss up	gerund	Diachok not said here	the head	horns = horn		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Patient to they=Recipient

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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