Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 180
I will thrash you with the tongs; I will give it you with the stove-rake."
Who acts: I · What happens: thrash, give · To what, where: you, blood
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thrash | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrash | aux |
| 3 | thrash | thrash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thrash | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tongs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tongs | det |
| 7 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thrash | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thrash | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rake | det |
| 16 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rake | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 stove | punct |
| 18 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrash | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrash | future | I | you | with the tongs | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tong=Instrument | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | blood | you | with the stove rake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme |
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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