Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 10

Keep it always by you, and never show it to anybody; and whenever any misfortune comes upon you, give the doll food, and ask its advice.

Who acts: you, misfortune · What happens: keep, not show, come, give, ask · To what, where: doll, anybody, doll food, advice

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, misfortune), 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	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Keep	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 show	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 show	advmod
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 anybody	case
12	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 show	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 comes	cc
15	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	18 comes	mark
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 misfortune	det
17	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 comes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 comes	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 food	det
24	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	compound
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ask	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ask	cc
28	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 advice	nmod:poss
30	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ask	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	doll		by you; always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by you=Location
2	not show	infinitive	you not said here	doll	anybody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anybody=Recipient
3	come	present	any misfortune			upon you	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location
4	give	present		the doll food			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive		doll's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient

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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