Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 117

And the cannibals would drive away their purchases, like sheep, to their own land, and there fatten them up, kill them, and eat them.

Who acts: cannibals, own land · What happens: drive away, fatten up, kill, eat, purchase · To what, where: purchases, own land, cannibals

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibals, own land), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 drive	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cannibals	det
3	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drive	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drive	aux
5	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 drive	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 purchases	nmod:poss
8	purchases	purchase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drive	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sheep	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 sheep	case
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 purchases	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 land	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 land	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 land	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	amod
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drive	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fatten	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fatten	cc
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 fatten	advmod
20	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 land	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fatten	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 fatten	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kill	punct
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fatten	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kill	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fatten	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive away	would	the cannibals	cannibals's purchases and sheep	cannibals's own land	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent purchase=Theme to land=Trajectory
2	fatten up	infinitive	cannibals's own land not said here	cannibals = cannibal	there		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	kill	infinitive	cannibals's own land not said here	cannibals = cannibal			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	eat	infinitive	cannibals's own land not said here	cannibals = cannibal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	purchase		cannibals = cannibal				nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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