Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 73

They die, and he tells her to get ready to be married.

Who acts: parents, son · What happens: die, tell, get, marry · To what, where: sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, son), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tells	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 die	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tells	xcomp
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 married	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 married	aux:pass
13	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ready	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	present	parents = parent			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	present	son	sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	marry	to-infinitive · passive	son not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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