Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 169
And, mind you, old greybeard, do it quickly!"
Who acts: you · What happens: mind, do · To what, where: you, greybeard
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mind | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 greybeard | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 greybeard | amod |
| 7 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | imperative | you not said here | you | old greybeard obl | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | greybeard | quickly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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