Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 54

Ten years long have I been here in torment, neither eating or drinking; my throat is utterly dried up."

Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, eat, drink, dry up · To what, where: torment, throat

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (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	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 here	nsubj
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 here	cop
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 torment	case
9	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 here	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eating	punct
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 eating	cc:preconj
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 have	advcl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 drinking	cc
14	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 eating	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dried	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 throat	nmod:poss
17	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dried	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dried	aux:pass
19	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	20 dried	advmod
20	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 dried	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present				year	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	I		torment		here property	tree rules
3	eat	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dry up	present · passive		my throat			utterly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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