Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 139

"Well then, good youth, when you get nigh to your village, take off your cross, trace a circle three times about this horse, and hang the cross round its neck."

Who acts: you · What happens: get, take off, trace, hang · To what, where: cross, circle

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 youth	discourse
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 youth	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 get	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 youth	parataxis
11	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 village	nmod:poss
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nigh	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
16	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 get	parataxis
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cross	nmod:poss
19	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trace	punct
21	trace	trace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 take	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 circle	det
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trace	obj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trace	obl:unmarked
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 horse	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 horse	det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 times	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hang	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hang	cc
31	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 get	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cross	det
33	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hang	obj
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 neck	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 neck	nmod:poss
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hang	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present	you			nigh property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take off in a quote	infinitive		your cross			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
3	trace in a quote	infinitive		a circle	time		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme
4	hang in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the cross		round cross's neck	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=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 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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