Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 24

Only he'd have to look out sharp in burning me; for snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles would creep out of my inside, and crows and magpies and jackdaws would come flying up.

Who acts: Soldier, snakes, crows · What happens: have, look out, burn, creep out, come, fly up · To what, where: me, inside

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, snakes, crows), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 look	compound:prt
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 burning	mark
10	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 look	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 burning	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 snakes	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 snakes	case
14	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 creep	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 worms	cc
16	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snakes	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kinds	cc
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kinds	amod
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snakes	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 reptiles	case
21	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kinds	nmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 creep	aux
23	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 inside	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 inside	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 inside	nmod:poss
27	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 creep	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
30	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 come	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 magpies	cc
32	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crows	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 jackdaws	cc
34	jackdaws	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crows	conj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
37	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 come	xcomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 flying	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	Soldier			tree rules
2	look out	to-infinitive	Soldier not said here		sharp property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	burn	gerund	Soldier not said here	me		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	creep out	would	snakes and worms and different kinds of reptiles	my inside		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location inside=Theme
5	come	would	crows and magpies and jackdaws			tree rules
6	fly up	gerund	crows and magpies and jackdaws not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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