Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 87

If we were to pardon her now, we should always be unlucky; she'd be scheming mischief all her life."

Who acts: we, Yaga · What happens: pardon, be, scheme · To what, where: Yaga, mischief

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 (we, Yaga), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 pardon	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pardon	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pardon	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pardon	mark
5	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unlucky	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pardon	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 pardon	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pardon	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 unlucky	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 unlucky	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 unlucky	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 unlucky	cop
13	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 scheming	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scheming	nsubj
16	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 scheming	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 scheming	aux
18	scheming	scheme	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 unlucky	advcl
19	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scheming	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 life	det:predet
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scheming	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 unlucky	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 unlucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pardon a condition, not said to happen	past	we	Yaga	now		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	should	we			always, unlucky property	tree rules
3	scheme	would · progressive	Yaga	mischief			tree rules

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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