Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 29

"Be in the place of a sister to us, live here and keep house for us; otherwise we poor sufferers will have no one to cook our meals or wash our shirts.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, live, keep, have, cook, wash · To what, where: place, house, one, meals, shirts

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, we), 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	_	5 place	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sister	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sister	det
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 place	parataxis
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 live	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keep	cc
15	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 live	conj
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
20	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sufferers	amod
23	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 we	conj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 live	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cook	mark
29	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 one	acl
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 meals	nmod:poss
31	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cook	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 wash	cc
33	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cook	conj
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 shirts	nmod:poss
35	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wash	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the place	of a sister to us	tree rules
2	live in a quote	infinitive			here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep in a quote	infinitive		house		for us	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	have in a quote	future	we	no one		otherwise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	cook in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	our meals			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
6	wash in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	our shirts			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=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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