Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 67
"Only don't kill me, and I'll show it you directly!"
Who acts: you, blind man · What happens: not kill, show · To what, where: blind man, water, 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 | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 kill | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 show | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | aux |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 show | iobj |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 11 show | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the blind man = man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | future | the blind man = man | water | you | directly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic |
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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