Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 33
Frost, Frost, do not kill our oats! drive our flax and hemp deep into the ground."
Who acts: Frost · What happens: not kill, drive · To what, where: oats, flax, ground
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 (Frost), 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 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Frost | punct |
| 3 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Frost | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kill | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kill | advmod |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 oats | nmod:poss |
| 9 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kill | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 drive | punct |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | parataxis |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flax | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hemp | cc |
| 15 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flax | conj |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 11 drive | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | infinitive · do-support | Frost and Frost | our oats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | our flax and hemp | the ground | deep property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flax=Theme into ground=Trajectory |
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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