Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 23
"Mind, daughter! when I'm dead, don't you wash my body with lukewarm water; but fill a cauldron, make it boil its very hottest, and then with that boiling water regularly scald me all over."
Who acts: Mind, you, cauldron · What happens: be, not wash, fill, make, boil, scald · To what, where: body, cauldron, hottest, moment
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mind, you, cauldron), 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 Mind | punct |
| 2 | Mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mind | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 dead | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wash | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wash | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 wash | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wash | nsubj |
| 14 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dead | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wash | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | lukewarm | lukewarm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wash | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fill | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 fill | cc |
| 22 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wash | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cauldron | det |
| 24 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fill | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fill | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hottest | nmod:poss |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 hottest | advmod |
| 31 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 boil | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 scald | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 scald | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 scald | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 water | case |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 water | det |
| 37 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 water | amod |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 scald | obl |
| 39 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 40 scald | advmod |
| 40 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wash | advcl |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 scald | obj |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 over | advmod |
| 43 | over | over | ADV | _ | 40 scald | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dead | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mind and daughter | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wash in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | my body | with lukewarm water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent body=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | fill in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a cauldron | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cauldron=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | cauldron | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | boil in a quote | infinitive | cauldron not said here | cauldron's hottest | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hot=Patient | ||||
| 6 | boil in a quote | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | scald in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the moment = moment | then | with that boiling water; over, regularly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with water=Instrument |
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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