Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 155

Out of my belly snakes, worms and all sorts of reptiles will creep; jackdaws, magpies and crows will fly: you must catch them and throw them on the pile.

Who acts: sorts, belly snakes, you · What happens: creep, fly, catch, throw · To what, where: snakes, pile

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, belly snakes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADP	_	5 snakes	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 snakes	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 snakes	nmod:poss
4	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snakes	compound
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fly	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worms	punct
7	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snakes	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sorts	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snakes	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 reptiles	case
12	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 creep	obl
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 creep	aux
14	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sorts	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 jackdaws	punct
16	jackdaws	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snakes	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 magpies	punct
18	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snakes	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crows	cc
20	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snakes	conj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fly	aux
22	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 catch	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 catch	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 catch	aux
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fly	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 catch	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 throw	cc
29	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 catch	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 throw	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 pile	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pile	det
33	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throw	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	future	all sorts not said here			of reptiles	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of reptile=Trajectory
2	fly	future	my belly snakes and worms and all sorts and jackdaws and magpies and crows				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	must	you	snakes = snake			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	you not said here	snakes = snake	the pile		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pile=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 155

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 155