Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 34

The Tcheremisses have similar ideas, and are afraid of knocking the icicles off their houses, thinking that, if they do so, Frost will wax wroth and freeze them to death.

Who acts: Tcheremisses · What happens: have, be, knock, think, do, freeze · To what, where: similar ideas, icicles, that, Frost wax, Tcheremisses

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 (Tcheremisses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tcheremisses	det
2	Tcheremisses	tcheremiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ideas	amod
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 afraid	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 knocking	case
11	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 afraid	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 icicles	det
13	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knocking	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 houses	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 houses	nmod:poss
16	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knocking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
18	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 afraid	advcl
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 thinking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wax	punct
26	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wax	compound
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wax	aux
28	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obl
29	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wax	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 freeze	cc
31	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wroth	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 freeze	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 death	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 freeze	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Tcheremisses	similar ideas		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	is	present	the Tcheremisses not said here		afraid property	tree rules
3	knock	gerund		the icicles	off Tcheremisses's houses	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent icicle=Patient off house=Co-Patient
4	think speech: other	gerund	the Tcheremisses not said here	that		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
5	do	present	Tcheremisses = tcheremiss	Frost wax		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	freeze	infinitive	Tcheremisses = tcheremiss not said here	Tcheremisses = tcheremiss	to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

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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