Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 30
"If the blood in this glass turns black, tarry here no longer: that will mean that I am about to die."
Who acts: blood, that, brothers · What happens: turn, mean, die · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (blood, that, brothers), 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 | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 turns | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blood | nmod |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turns | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tarry | punct |
| 11 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 black | conj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 turns | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 turns | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mean | aux |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turns | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 die | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 die | aux |
| 22 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mean | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | present | the blood in this glass | here | black, long property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean in a quote | future | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die not said to happen, in a quote | present | brothers = brother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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