Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 50

I exclaimed, and began flinging from the table, and beyond the threshold, whatever I could lay my hands upon.

Who acts: I · What happens: exclaim, begin, fling, lay · To what, where: table, whatever

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 exclaimed	nsubj
2	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 exclaimed	conj
6	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flinging	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 threshold	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 threshold	det
14	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lay	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	aux
19	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 exclaimed	advcl
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lay	obj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 lay	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	I				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	I not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fling	gerund	I not said here		the table		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from table=Initial_Location
4	lay	could	I	whatever		beyond the threshold	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme hand=Destination

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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