Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 36
The eater-up (_ob'egedat'_ = to devour), the drinker-up (_pit'_ = to drink, _opivat'sya_, to drink oneself to death), and "Crackling Frost."
What happens: devour, drink · To what, where: opivat'sya, oneself
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 4 up | det |
| 2 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 up | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 = | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 ob'egedat | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 ob'egedat | punct |
| 7 | ob'egedat | ob'egedat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 up | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ob'egedat | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | SYM | _ | 12 devour | punct |
| 10 | = | = | SYM | _ | 12 devour | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 devour | mark |
| 12 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ob'egedat | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 ob'egedat | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 up | det |
| 16 | drinker | drinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 up | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 up | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 pit | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 pit | punct |
| 21 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 up | appos |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 pit | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | SYM | _ | 21 pit | punct |
| 24 | = | = | SYM | _ | 26 drink | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 drink | mark |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 opivat'sya | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 opivat'sya | punct |
| 29 | opivat'sya | opivat'sya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drink | obj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 opivat'sya | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 drink | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 drink | mark |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 drink | conj |
| 34 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 drink | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drink | obl |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 drink | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Frost | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Frost | cc |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Frost | punct |
| 41 | Crackling | crackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Frost | compound |
| 42 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drink | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 drink | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | to-infinitive | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | opivat'sya | Crackling Frost obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opivat'sya=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | oneself | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneself=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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