Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 61
"Now we must heap up a great pile of wood, and consume this accursed one with fire, and fling her ashes to the wind!"
Who acts: we · What happens: heap up, consume, accurs, fling · To what, where: great pile, accursed one, ashes, wind
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 heap | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heap | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heap | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 heap | aux |
| 5 | heap | heap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 heap | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pile | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pile | amod |
| 9 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heap | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pile | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 consume | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 consume | cc |
| 14 | consume | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heap | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 one | det |
| 16 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 consume | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fling | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fling | cc |
| 22 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heap | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fling | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 wind | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wind | det |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fling | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 heap | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap up in a quote | must | we | a great pile of wood | now | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pile=Theme | |||
| 2 | consume in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | this accursed one | with fire | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Asset | |||
| 3 | accurs in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fling in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | cripple's ashes | the wind | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ash=Theme to wind=Destination |
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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