Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 79

Accordingly "the little devil cut him up into small pieces, threw them into a cauldron and set them on to boil.

Who acts: little devil · What happens: cut up, throw, set on, boil · To what, where: soldier, small pieces, devils, cauldron

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 (little devil), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	6 cut	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 devil	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 devil	amod
5	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cauldron	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cauldron	det
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 set	cc
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 threw	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 boil	mark
23	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut up in a quote	past	the little devil	soldier	small pieces	accordingly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into piece=Product
2	throw in a quote	past		devils = devil		into a cauldron result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into cauldron=Result
3	set on in a quote	infinitive		devils = devil			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
4	boil in a quote	to-infinitive					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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