Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 43

"Now then, one of you axes! go and cut me a cudgel,[353] as heavy a one as I can lift."

Who acts: one axes, people · What happens: go, cut, lift · To what, where: cudgel, people

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one axes, people), 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	_	10 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 axes	nummod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 axes	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cut	cc
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cut	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cudgel	det
15	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heavy	punct
17	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 heavy	punct
18	353	353	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 [	obl
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	18 353	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 heavy	case
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 go	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 heavy	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 lift	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 lift	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lift	aux
27	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heavy	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive	one axes			then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut in a quote	infinitive	one axes not said here	a cudgel	people		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary cudgel=Product
3	lift in a quote	can	people				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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