Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 95
Cover me up with a cloth, and sit down and cry, just as you would over a corpse.
Who acts: you · What happens: cover up, sit down, cry · To what, where: me, corpse
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. 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 | Cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Cover | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Cover | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cloth | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cover | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sit | cc |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cover | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sit | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cry | cc |
| 12 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 sit | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 corpse | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 would | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 would | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 would | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 corpse | aux |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 corpse | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 corpse | det |
| 20 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | imperative | you not said here | me | with a cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with cloth=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | infinitive | you not said here | a corpse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over corpse=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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