Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 185
But if you don't--why then you mustn't be annoyed at finding your head stuck on top of the last pole up there."
Who acts: you, head · What happens: not do, not be, find, stick · To what, where: head, top
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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, head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 annoyed | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 annoyed | advcl |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 then | advmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 annoyed | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 annoyed | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 annoyed | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 annoyed | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 annoyed | cop |
| 13 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 finding | mark |
| 15 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 annoyed | advcl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finding | obj |
| 18 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 finding | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stuck | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pole | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pole | amod |
| 24 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stuck | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoyed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | must | you | then | annoyed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | you not said here | your head | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent head=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | participle | your head not said here | top of the last pole; there | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=Destination |
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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