Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 16

Come out; I want to eat you.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come out, want, eat · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	imperative	you not said here		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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 22, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 16