Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 78

I will drive in a carriage, but you should ride on a heroic steed, and it is necessary that you should break him in beforehand."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: drive, ride, be, break · To what, where: carriage, heroic steed, husband

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 drive	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drive	aux
3	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 carriage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carriage	det
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ride	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 ride	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ride	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ride	aux
11	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drive	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 steed	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 steed	det
14	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 steed	amod
15	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 necessary	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 necessary	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 necessary	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 necessary	cop
20	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ride	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 break	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 break	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 break	aux
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 necessary	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 break	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 beforehand	case
27	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	24 break	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drive	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	future	I		a carriage		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	ride	should	you		a heroic steed		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you not said here			necessary property	tree rules
4	break	should	you	husband			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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