Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 40

She never let any one come near her dwelling, and she ate up people like so many chickens.

Who acts: clearing, people · What happens: not let, eat up, like · To what, where: one come, dwelling, many chickens

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clearing, people), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 come	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 come	nummod
6	come	come	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 dwelling	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dwelling	nmod:poss
9	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ate	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ate	compound:prt
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ate	ccomp
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chickens	amod
19	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 like	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not let	past	clearing	any one come	clearing's dwelling	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent come=Theme
2	eat up	past	clearing			tree rules
3	like	present	people	many chickens		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chicken=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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