Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 39

"But I," she said, "will fly about as a cuckoo, crying 'Cuckoo!' henceforth and evermore!"

Who acts: I · What happens: say, fly, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	about	about	ADV	_	15 cuckoo	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 cuckoo	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cuckoo	det
15	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fly	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crying	punct
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fly	advcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 Cuckoo	punct
19	Cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crying	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
22	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 evermore	cc
24	evermore	evermore	ADV	_	22 henceforth	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	future		as a cuckoo; henceforth property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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