Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 85

Only see him mount his flying steed, give his cap a cock, and stick his elbows akimbo! why, you'd say he was a king, a born king! you'd never suspect he once was only Vanyusha.

Who acts: you, Vanya · What happens: see, mount, fly, give, stick, say · To what, where: Vanya, flying steed, cap, elbows akimbo, king, Vanyusha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Vanya), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj
4	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 steed	nmod:poss
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 steed	amod
7	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mount	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cap	nmod:poss
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cock	det
13	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stick	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stick	cc
16	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 akimbo	nmod:poss
18	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 akimbo	compound
19	akimbo	akimbo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stick	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 stick	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 stick	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
24	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stick	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 king	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 king	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 king	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 king	det
32	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 king	amod
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 king	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 king	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 suspect	nsubj
36	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 suspect	aux
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 suspect	advmod
38	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	ccomp
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 suspect	obj
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 Vanyusha	advmod
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 Vanyusha	cop
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 Vanyusha	advmod
43	Vanyusha	Vanyusha	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 suspect	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	Vanya		tree rules
2	mount	infinitive	Vanya not said here	Vanya's flying steed		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
3	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	Vanya's cap		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cap=Recipient cock=Theme
5	stick	infinitive	you not said here	Vanya's elbows akimbo		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent akimbo=Theme
6	say speech: assert	would	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is a	past	Vanya	a king and a born king		tree rules
8	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9	not suspect	would	you	Vanya		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
10	is a	past		Vanyusha	once property	tree rules

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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