Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 86

Then the Snake cried to the Raven, "Fly, and tell my wife to come and devour Ivan Popyalof."

Who acts: Snake · What happens: cry, fly, tell, come, devour · To what, where: Raven, wife, 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 (Snake), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Snake	det
3	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Raven	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Raven	det
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Fly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Fly	punct
10	Fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	parataxis
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 devour	cc
19	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 devour	obj
21	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ivan	flat
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Snake		the Raven	then	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to raven=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	infinitive	the Snake not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			my wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	devour in a quote	infinitive		Ivan			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Patient

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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