Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 87

But Ivan cried: "Fly, and tell my brothers to come, and then we will kill this Snake, and give his flesh to thee."

Who acts: Ivan, we · What happens: cry, fly, tell, come, kill, give · To what, where: brothers, Snake, flesh, thee · 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 (Ivan, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 cried	cc
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Fly	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Fly	punct
6	Fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Fly	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kill	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kill	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 kill	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 kill	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 kill	aux
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Fly	advcl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Snake	det
21	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kill	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Fly	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 flesh	nmod:poss
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 give	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Ivan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			my brothers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill in a quote	future	we	this Snake		then	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
6	give in a quote	infinitive		IVAN's flesh	thee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme to thou=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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