Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 130

[484] I daresay I shall starve to death."

Who acts: 484 · What happens: starve

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (484), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 484	punct
2	484	484	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 starve	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 484	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 484	nsubj
5	daresay	daresay	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 starve	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 starve	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 starve	aux
8	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starve	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 starve	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 starve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	shall · present	484					to death	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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