Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 72

If you can pick out the same one three times running, she shall be your wife; if you fail to do so, I shall have you put to death."

Who acts: you, three times, bride, I · What happens: pick out, run, be, fail, not do, have · To what, where: same one, wife, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three times, bride, I), 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	_	4 pick	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obl:unmarked
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 times	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wife	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wife	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wife	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wife	cop
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 fail	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 fail	nsubj
21	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 have	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fail	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fail	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pick	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	obj
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	can	you	the same one	time		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	run	gerund	three times not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	shall	bride	your wife			tree rules
4	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not do	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	shall	I	you			tree rules
7	put	participle	you not said here			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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