Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 93
Now mind! when the grooms bring you out into the wide courtyard, and the Prince goes up to you and lays his hand on you, do you stand quietly, not moving so much as an ear.
Who acts: you, grooms, Prince · What happens: mind, bring out, go up, lay, stand, not move · To what, where: you, wide courtyard, hand, much
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, grooms, Prince), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 mind | advmod |
| 2 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grooms | det |
| 6 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mind | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bring | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 courtyard | det |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 courtyard | amod |
| 13 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 goes | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mind | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 goes | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 goes | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lays | cc |
| 23 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 goes | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lays | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 lays | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stand | punct |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stand | aux |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 stand | nsubj |
| 31 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mind | parataxis |
| 32 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 31 stand | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 moving | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 moving | advmod |
| 35 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 stand | advcl |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 moving | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 ear | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 ear | det |
| 40 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 much | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | imperative | you not said here | now | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bring out | present | the grooms | you | the wide courtyard | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | go up | present | the Prince | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | the Prince not said here | Prince's hand | on you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on you=Destination | |||
| 5 | stand | present · do-support | you | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not move | gerund | you not said here | much | as a ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
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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