Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 46
I must tie you up, or you won't keep still.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tie up, not keep · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tie | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tie | aux |
| 3 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tie | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tie | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 keep | advmod |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tie | conj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | must | I | you | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not keep | future | you | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/46/