Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 118

The Snake's Wife came flying up, and said to Kuzma and Demian, "Give me up Ivan Popyalof."

Who acts: Wife · What happens: come, fly up, say, give up · To what, where: Kuzma, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Snake	det
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Snake	case
4	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 flying	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Kuzma	case
12	Kuzma	Kuzma	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Demian	cc
14	Demian	Demian	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Kuzma	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Give	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Give	punct
17	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Give	iobj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 Give	compound:prt
20	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Give	iobj
21	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ivan	flat
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	the Snake's Wife		tree rules
2	fly up	gerund	the Snake's Wife not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		Kuzma and Demian	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to kuzma=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give up in a quote	infinitive		Ivan	tree rules

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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