Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 122

"I've chased a soldier in here, so I'm going to eat him."

Who acts: soldier · What happens: chase, go, eat · To what, where: soldier

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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	_	4 chased	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj:pass
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chased	aux
4	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 here	case
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 chased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chased	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chase in a quote	present · perfect · passive		soldier	tree rules
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	soldier		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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