Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 48

"Now then, Uncle Footless!" says the blind man, "you get under the bench, and lie there ever so still, and I'll go into the yard and stand under the window.

Who acts: Uncle Footless, you · What happens: say, get, lie, go, stand · To what, where: bench, window · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uncle Footless, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Footless	punct
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Footless	compound
6	Footless	Footless	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Footless	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Footless	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 bench	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bench	det
19	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lie	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lie	cc
22	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 get	conj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lie	advmod
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 lie	advmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 still	advmod
26	still	still	ADV	_	22 lie	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 get	parataxis
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 yard	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 yard	det
34	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stand	cc
36	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 window	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stand	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Uncle Footless		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get in a quote	present	you	the bench			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	lie in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	there	ever; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	future	Uncle Footless = footless			into the yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location
5	stand in a quote	infinitive	Uncle Footless = footless not said here	the window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under window=Location

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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