Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 106

Well, as soon as these horrors begin, jump on to the stove as quick as you can, squeeze yourself into a corner, and silently offer up prayers.

Who acts: horrors, you · What happens: begin, jump on, squeeze, offer up · To what, where: yourself, corner, prayers

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrors, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 jump	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 horrors	det
7	horrors	horror	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 begin	nsubj
8	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 jump	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct
10	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 jump	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stove	det
14	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jump	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 quick	advmod
16	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stove	amod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 can	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 can	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 quick	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 squeeze	punct
21	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 jump	conj
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 squeeze	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 squeeze	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 offer	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 offer	cc
28	silently	silently	ADV	_	29 offer	advmod
29	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 jump	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 offer	compound:prt
31	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 offer	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	present	this horrors				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	jump on	imperative	you not said here			to the stove result; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stove=Result
3	squeeze	infinitive	you not said here	yourself	a corner		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent yourself=Material into corner=Product
4	offer up	infinitive	you not said here	prayers		silently property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme

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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