Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 63
"Well then, take them; only don't overburthen them."
Who acts: you · What happens: take, not overburthen · To what, where: cart
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 take | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 overburthen | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 overburthen | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 overburthen | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 overburthen | advmod |
| 11 | overburthen | overburthen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overburthen | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | cart | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | not overburthen in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | cart | tree rules |
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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