Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 158
"Turn about, roll about, having fed on Alenka's flesh!"
Who acts: you · What happens: turn about, roll about, have, feed
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. 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 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 Turn | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roll | punct |
| 5 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Turn | conj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 roll | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 roll | advcl |
| 9 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 having | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 flesh | case |
| 11 | Alenka | Alenka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Alenka | case |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fed | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn about in a quote | imperative | you not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll about in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | participle | you not said here | on Alenka's flesh | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flesh=Patient |
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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