Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 15
See now, they are going to torment me, to beat me with sticks, to tear me with nails."
Who acts: you, pots · What happens: see, go, torment, beat, tear · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pots), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 See | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 See | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 torment | mark |
| 8 | torment | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 torment | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beat | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 beat | mark |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 beat | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sticks | case |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tear | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tear | mark |
| 18 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 beat | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tear | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 nails | case |
| 21 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tear | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | pots = pot | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | torment | to-infinitive | pots = pot not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | beat | to-infinitive | me | with sticks | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with stick=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | tear | to-infinitive | me | with nails | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with nail=Instrument |
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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