Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 126

The Water King flung himself on the _kissel_ and honey-water, and ate and ate, and drank and drank until he burst!

Who acts: Water King, King · What happens: fling, eat, drink, burst · To what, where: King, kissel

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water King, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	compound
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 flung	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 kissel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kissel	det
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 kissel	punct
9	kissel	kissel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 kissel	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 water	cc
12	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 water	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 honey	punct
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kissel	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ate	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drank	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drank	cc
22	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flung	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drank	cc
24	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drank	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 burst	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 burst	nsubj
27	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drank	advcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fling	past	the Water King	King	the kissel and honey water	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on kissel=Destination
2	eat	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	burst	past	King			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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