Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 137

"To-day I suckle thee, to-morrow I shall suckle thee, but on the third day I shall fly away beyond the dark forests, beyond the high mountains!"

Who acts: certain old man · What happens: suckle, fly away · To what, where: thee, morrow, dark forests

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 (certain old man), 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	_	6 suckle	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suckle	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 suckle	nsubj
6	suckle	suckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 suckle	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suckle	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 morrow	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suckle	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 suckle	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 suckle	aux
14	suckle	suckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 suckle	conj
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 suckle	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fly	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 fly	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fly	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fly	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fly	aux
24	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 suckle	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 fly	advmod
26	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	29 forests	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forests	det
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 forests	amod
29	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fly	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mountains	punct
31	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	34 mountains	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountains	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mountains	amod
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 forests	conj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 suckle	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 suckle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suckle in a quote	present	a certain old man = man	thee			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	suckle in a quote	shall	a certain old man = man	thee	morrow				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to morrow=Recipient
3	fly away in a quote	shall	a certain old man = man			the dark forests and the high mountains	day	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beyond forest=Location

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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