Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 124

The devils eagerly set to work to hunt him up.

What happens: work, hunt up · To what, where: SOLDIER

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 devils	det
2	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 work	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunt	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 hunt	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt up	to-infinitive		SOLDIER					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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