Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 16

If you obey him, you will prosper; but if you choose to be disobedient, you will perish like a fly."

Who acts: you · What happens: obey, prosper, choose, be, perish · To what, where: Katoma

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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 obey	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 obey	nsubj
3	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prosper	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obey	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obey	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 prosper	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 prosper	aux
8	prosper	prosper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 perish	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 perish	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 choose	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 choose	nsubj
13	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 perish	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 disobedient	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 disobedient	cop
16	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 choose	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 choose	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 perish	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 perish	aux
20	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 prosper	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 fly	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fly	det
23	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 perish	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prosper	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 prosper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	obey a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Katoma		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	prosper	future	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		disobedient property	tree rules
5	perish	future	you		like a fly	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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