Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 4

The only way I can get my food is this: to catch some game or other, and cook it at a wood fire.

Who acts: I, this · What happens: get, be, cook · To what, where: food, game, wood fire

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this), 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	3 way	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 catch	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl:relcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	cop
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 catch	nsubj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 catch	mark
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 catch	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 other	cc
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 game	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cook	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cook	cc
20	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 catch	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cook	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 fire	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fire	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fire	compound
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cook	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	can	I	my food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
2	is	present	this			the only way obl:unmarked; catch property	tree rules
3	cook	infinitive	this not said here	game	a wood fire		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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