Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 25

"Stretch him on the Gossip's Bedstead!"

Who acts: you · What happens: stretch · To what, where: Satan, Bedstead

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Stretch	punct
2	Stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Stretch	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 Bedstead	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gossip	det
6	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Bedstead	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Gossip	case
8	Bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stretch	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stretch	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stretch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Satan		the Gossip's Bedstead			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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