Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 17

Perhaps they'll take to torturing me too!"

Who acts: pots · What happens: take, torture · 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 (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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 torturing	mark
6	torturing	torture	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 torturing	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	pots = pot					perhaps property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	torture	gerund	pots = pot not said here	me					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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