Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 120

If Vikhor comes, and begins quarrelling, don't come forth, but if he takes to chatting, come forth and say, 'Hail father!' and seize hold of the little finger of his right hand, and wherever he flies do you go with him."

Who acts: Vikhor, you, Prince · What happens: come, begin, not come, take, chat, say · To what, where: quarrelling, Hail father, hold, little finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor, you, Prince), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 comes	mark
2	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 begins	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 begins	cc
6	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
7	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begins	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 takes	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	nsubj
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	advcl
18	to	to	SCONJ	_	19 chatting	mark
19	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 takes	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	parataxis
22	forth	forth	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
27	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 father	compound
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seize	cc
32	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	conj
33	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seize	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 finger	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 finger	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 finger	amod
37	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hold	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 hand	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
40	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hand	amod
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 finger	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 flies	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flies	cc
44	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	46 flies	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 flies	nsubj
46	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	parataxis
47	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 flies	ccomp
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	present	Vikhor			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	present	Vikhor not said here	quarrelling		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrelling=Eventuality
3	not come	imperative · do-support	you not said here		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take a condition, not said to happen	present	Prince			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	chat speech: other	gerund	Prince not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	infinitive			forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	infinitive		Hail father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
8	seize	infinitive		hold of the little finger of Prince's right hand		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
9	fly	present	Prince		wherever property	tree rules
10	go	present · do-support	you		with Prince	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
11	hold			the little finger of Prince's right hand		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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