Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 10
"Mind, Prince! if you don't take good care of the mares, if you lose merely one of them--your bold head will be stuck on that pole!"
Who acts: you, mares · What happens: not take, lose, stick, care · To what, where: Mind, one, bold head, pole
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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, mares), 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 | 10 take | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mind | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 care | amod |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mares | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mares | det |
| 15 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 care | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 lose | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | advcl |
| 20 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 stuck | punct |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 head | amod |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 stuck | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stuck | aux:pass |
| 30 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 take | parataxis |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 pole | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 pole | det |
| 33 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stuck | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take in a quote | present · do-support | you | Mind | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | one of mares | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | future · passive | your bold head | that pole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | care in a quote | the mares | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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