Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 164

"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	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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