Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 112

Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the corn-sacks are."

Who acts: you, corn sacks · What happens: husband, tie up, put, be · To what, where: me, bag

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, corn sacks), 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	Husband	husband	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Husband	xcomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Husband	punct
4	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Husband	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tie	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 tie	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bag	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tie	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Husband	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	out	out	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 put	advmod
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 put	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sacks	det
18	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sacks	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 corn	punct
20	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 where	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 where	cop
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Husband	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Husband	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	husband	imperative	you not said here				dear property	tree rules
2	tie up	infinitive	you not said here	me		a bag		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	put	infinitive	you not said here		me	there		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal
4	is	present	the corn sacks				where property	tree rules

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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