Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 43

And she sets me to dress her head, and meanwhile she sucks my breasts."

Who acts: Yaga · What happens: set, dress, suck · To what, where: me, head, breasts

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 (Yaga), 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	_	3 sets	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sets	nsubj
3	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sets	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dress	mark
6	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sets	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sucks	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sucks	cc
11	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	13 sucks	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sucks	nsubj
13	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sets	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breasts	nmod:poss
15	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sucks	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sets	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present	Yaga	me		tree rules
2	dress	to-infinitive	Yaga not said here	Yaga's head		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	suck	present	Yaga	my breasts	meanwhile property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source

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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