Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 69

He went on his way a long time without eating or drinking; at last he felt mortally hungry, and thought, "If only something would come my way!"

Who acts: Koshchei, something · What happens: go, eat, drink, feel, think, come · To what, where: way, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, something), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 drinking	cc
12	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 eating	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
18	mortally	mortally	ADV	_	19 hungry	advmod
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 something	advmod
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 come	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Koshchei		Koshchei's way	time		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	eat	gerund	Koshchei not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	Koshchei not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	past	Koshchei		last		hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	something	my way				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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