Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 90
What sort of a devil do you call yourself after that?"--and ordered him to be flung "into boiling pitch."
Who acts: sort · What happens: call, order, fling, sort · To what, where: yourself, sort, boiling pitch, devil · 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 (sort), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sort | det |
| 2 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 devil | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 devil | det |
| 5 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 call | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 flung | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 flung | aux:pass |
| 20 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordered | xcomp |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 flung | punct |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 pitch | case |
| 23 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pitch | compound |
| 24 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | what sort of a devil | yourself | after that | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | order in a quote | past | what sort of a devil not said here | sort | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fling not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | what sort of a devil not said here | boiling pitch | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: into pitch=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sort | a devil | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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