Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 12

"Sit on my back and show me the way; I will serve you with my feet, and you me with your eyes."

Who acts: you, blind man · What happens: sit, show, serve · To what, where: blind man, back, way, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blind man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 show	cc
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 serve	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 serve	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 serve	aux
14	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Sit	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 serve	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 serve	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 me	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 me	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 me	nsubj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Sit	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 me	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the blind man = man		my back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
2	show in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the way	the blind man = man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
3	serve in a quote	future	the blind man = man		you		with my feet	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with foot=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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