Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 12

"What are you about, fool! your brothers ordered you to pay us respect, and in return for that each of them was going to bring you a present, but there you lie on the stove and don't do a bit of work.

Who acts: you, fool brothers, each · What happens: be, order, pay, respect, go, bring · To what, where: you, us, return, present, stove, bit

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fool brothers, each), 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	_	7 fool	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 fool	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 fool	nsubj
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 fool	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
7	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 brothers	compound
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 fool	punct
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordered	nsubj
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ordered	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pay	mark
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 pay	iobj
16	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pay	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 going	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 return	case
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 return	nmod
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 going	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 each	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ordered	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bring	mark
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 present	det
32	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lie	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 lie	cc
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 lie	advmod
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 lie	nsubj
37	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 stove	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stove	det
40	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lie	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 do	cc
42	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 do	aux
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 do	advmod
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 lie	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 bit	det
46	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 do	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 work	case
48	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bit	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you				about, fool property	tree rules
2	order in a quote	past	your fool brothers		you			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pay not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	your fool brothers not said here		us			tree rules
4	respect in a quote	infinitive	your fool brothers not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	go in a quote	past · progressive	each			return for that		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	each not said here	a present	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination present=Theme
7	lie in a quote	present	you			the stove; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stove=Location
8	not do in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	a bit of work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Eventuality

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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