Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 60

I have a splendid heroic steed now; it flies just like a bird."

Who acts: I, steed · What happens: have, fly · To what, where: splendid heroic steed, bird

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, steed), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 steed	det
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steed	amod
5	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steed	amod
6	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 have	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 flies	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flies	nsubj
10	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 bird	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 bird	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flies	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flies	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a splendid heroic steed			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	fly	present	steed	a bird					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme

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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