Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 80

He caught hold of it, and thought--for he was half dead with hunger--"Now I shall have something to eat."

Who acts: pike, I · What happens: catch, hold, think, be, have, eat · To what, where: something · 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 (pike, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caught	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	parataxis
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 dead	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dead	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
13	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 dead	advmod
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 hunger	case
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 have	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	conj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 something	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	pike				tree rules
2	hold	infinitive	pike not said here			of strand	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	pike			with hunger; dead, half property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	shall	I	something	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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