Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 16

All of a sudden the fiends seized me and brought me here; and here I am living with them!"

Who acts: All, I · What happens: seize, bring, live · To what, where: me

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 (All, I), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 seized	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 fiends	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fiends	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fiends	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fiends	det
6	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 All	nmod
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 brought	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 living	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 here	cc
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 living	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 living	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 living	aux
18	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seized	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 living	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 living	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 living	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	All	me				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	bring	past	All not said here		me	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	live	present · progressive	I			here	with steps = step	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location

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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