Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 143
Go and beat thy pails together in front of the house, and cry, 'Wednesday's children have been burnt at sea!'
Who acts: you · What happens: go, beat, cry, burnt · To what, where: pails, children, sea
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beat | cc |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 pails | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beat | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 beat | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cry | cc |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burnt | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 burnt | punct |
| 17 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Wednesday | case |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 burnt | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 burnt | aux:pass |
| 22 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cry | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burnt | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | you not said here | thy pails | in front of the house; together property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent pail=Patient in front=Topic | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | burnt | present · perfect · passive | Wednesday's children | sea | 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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