Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 86

I'm in such pressing need of money just now.

Who acts: I · What happens: press, be · To what, where: such pressing need

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 need	case
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 need	amod
5	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 need	amod
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 now	advmod
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 need	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund							vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I			such pressing need	now	of money	tree rules

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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