Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 49
"By the Pike's command, at my request, go, O cudgel, and bestir thyself."
Who acts: you, Pike, my · What happens: go, bestir, command, request · To what, where: thyself · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Pike, my), 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 | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pike | det |
| 4 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Pike | case |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 request | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 request | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 request | nmod:poss |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 command | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cudgel | punct |
| 14 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 cudgel | case |
| 15 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bestir | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bestir | cc |
| 18 | bestir | bestir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 18 bestir | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | by the Pike's command and my request; of cudgel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of cudgel=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bestir in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | thyself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | command in a quote | the Pike | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | request in a quote | my | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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