Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 145

Then don't let her in, however much she may threaten you or implore you, but sign a cross with your hands, and draw one with a piece of chalk, and utter a prayer.

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: not let in, threaten, implore, sign, draw, utter · To what, where: woman, you, cross, one, prayer

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, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threaten	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	12 threaten	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threaten	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 threaten	aux
12	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 threaten	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 implore	cc
15	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 threaten	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 implore	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sign	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 sign	cc
19	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cross	det
21	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sign	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sign	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 draw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 draw	cc
27	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 draw	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 piece	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 piece	det
31	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 chalk	case
33	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 piece	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 utter	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 utter	cc
36	utter	utter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 draw	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 prayer	det
38	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 utter	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not let in	imperative · do-support	you not said here	woman		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	threaten	may	woman	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	implore	infinitive	woman not said here		you			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	sign	infinitive	you not said here	a cross			with your hands	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cross=Destination with hand=Theme
5	draw	infinitive		one			with a piece of chalk	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	utter speech: other	infinitive		a prayer				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic

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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