Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 162

"I turn about, I roll about, having fed on Ivashko's flesh!"

Who acts: witch · 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 (witch), 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 turn	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 roll	nsubj
7	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turn	advcl
11	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 having	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 flesh	case
13	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 flesh	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Ivashko	case
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fed	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn about in a quote	present	the witch = witch	about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	roll about in a quote	present	the witch = witch	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	gerund	the witch = witch not said here		tree rules
4	feed in a quote	participle	the witch = witch not said here	on Ivashko'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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