Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 36

"Fly about as a wren, henceforth and evermore!"

Who acts: you · What happens: fly

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
2	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 Fly	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 wren	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wren	det
6	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 henceforth	punct
8	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	2 Fly	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 evermore	cc
10	evermore	evermore	ADV	_	8 henceforth	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	imperative	you not said here					as a wren; about, henceforth property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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