Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 58
If Koshchei catches us, you will be cut in pieces again."
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: catch, cut · To what, where: us, you, pieces
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 (Koshchei), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 catches | mark |
| 2 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 catches | nsubj |
| 3 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | advcl |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 catches | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 catches | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cut | aux:pass |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 cut | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch a condition, not said to happen | present | Koshchei | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | future · passive | you | pieces | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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