Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 26
"If you don't take good care of them," says she, "your bold head will be stuck on that pole!"
Who acts: you, mares · What happens: not take, say, stick, care · To what, where: good care, Yaga, pole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 care | amod |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 care | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stuck | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 she | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stuck | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 head | amod |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stuck | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 stuck | aux:pass |
| 22 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 says | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 pole | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 pole | det |
| 25 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stuck | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 stuck | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | good care of mares | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | future · passive | Yaga | that pole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | care in a quote | mares = mare | 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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