Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 125

But your tutor doesn't obey me a bit, drives the horses on purpose over hill and dale, just as if he wanted to put an end to us both.

Who acts: tutor, horse · What happens: not obey, drive, want, put · To what, where: me, horses, purpose, end, us

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tutor, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 obey	cc
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tutor	nmod:poss
3	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obey	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 obey	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 obey	advmod
6	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 obey	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obey	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drives	punct
11	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 obey	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horses	det
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drives	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drives	obl
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 hill	case
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drives	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dale	cc
19	dale	dale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hill	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wanted	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	25 wanted	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 wanted	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 wanted	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wanted	nsubj
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drives	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 put	mark
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wanted	xcomp
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 put	obl
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 us	nmod:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 obey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not obey	present · do-support	your tutor	me			a bit obl:unmarked	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	drive	present	your tutor not said here	the horses		purpose	over hill and dale	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on purpose=Destination over hill=Initial_Location
3	want a condition, not said to happen	past	horse					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	horse not said here	a end	us			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal

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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