Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 139
Go quickly to the priest, and ask him this favor--that if you die, your body shall not be taken out of the house through the doorway, but that the ground shall be dug away from under the threshold, and that you shall be dragged out through that opening.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask, die, not take out, dig away, drag out · To what, where: priest, favor, child, body, house, ground
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 priest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ask | cc |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | obj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 favor | det |
| 11 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 taken | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 taken | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 taken | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 taken | aux:pass |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ask | parataxis |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 doorway | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 doorway | det |
| 30 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dug | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 dug | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 dug | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 dug | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 dug | aux:pass |
| 38 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 taken | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 dug | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 threshold | case |
| 41 | under | under | ADP | _ | 43 threshold | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 threshold | det |
| 43 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dug | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 dragged | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 dragged | cc |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 dragged | mark |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 dragged | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 dragged | aux:pass |
| 50 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Go | conj |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 dragged | compound:prt |
| 52 | through | through | ADP | _ | 54 opening | case |
| 53 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 opening | det |
| 54 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 dragged | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the priest | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | this favor | child | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | not take out | shall · passive | your body | the house through the doorway | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dig away | shall · passive | the ground | the threshold | away property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from threshold=Material | |||
| 6 | drag out | shall · passive | you | that opening | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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