Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 50

Just let me lay hold of her by those grey hairs of hers!"

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, lay, hold · To what, where: me, hold, Yaga

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 (you, me), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hold	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 hairs	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 hairs	det
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hairs	amod
11	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hers	case
13	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hairs	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
2	lay	infinitive	me not said here	hold of Yaga	by that grey hairs of Yaga	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by hair=Destination
3	hold			Yaga		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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