Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 27
When I die, mind you come and read prayers over my grave."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: die, mind, come, read · To what, where: prayers, grave
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 die | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 die | nsubj |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 read | cc |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | conj |
| 10 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 read | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 grave | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 read | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mind | present | I not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read | present | I not said here | prayers | my grave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=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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