Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 14
One day my father was angry with me, and in his wrath he said, 'May devils fly away with you!'
Who acts: One day, fly, May devils · What happens: be, say, fly away · To what, where: wrath · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One day, fly, May devils), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 angry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wrath | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ' | punct |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 fly | punct |
| 18 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 devils | compound |
| 19 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fly | nsubj |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 fly | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fly | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day | with me; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fly | fly's wrath | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in wrath=Manner | ||||
| 3 | fly away | present | May devils | with you; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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