Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 145

Perch! perch! turn thy head round toward me, I want to have a chat with thee!"

Who acts: Perch perch, I · What happens: turn, want, have · To what, where: head, chat

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perch perch, 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	Perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perch	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Perch	punct
3	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 perch	punct
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obj
8	round	round	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chat	det
17	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 thee	case
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 have	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	infinitive	Perch perch	thy head	toward me; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme toward i=Trajectory
2	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a chat	with thee	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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