Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 78

So he calls the "little devil," and says, "Now turn me into a nice young man."

Who acts: soldier · What happens: call, say, turn · To what, where: little devil, soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 calls	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 devil	det
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 devil	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 devil	amod
7	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 devil	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 devil	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calls	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 turn	advmod
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 turn	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 man	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turn	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	soldier	the little devil			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	soldier not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn in a quote	infinitive		soldier	now	into a nice young man result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Theme into man=Result

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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