Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 54
Come out from under the bench, and lay hold of this viper of a woman, while I go into the hut!"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come out, lie, go, hold · To what, where: bench, hold, hut, viper
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, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bench | case |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 bench | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bench | det |
| 6 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 viper | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 viper | det |
| 13 | viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 viper | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | imperative | you not said here | the bench | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | past | hold of this viper of a woman | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | I | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | this viper of a woman | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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