Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 142

Don't drink much brandy, drink just what is right; and when the wind blows, and the coffin begins to rock, slip straight into the stove.

Who acts: you, wind, coffin · What happens: not drink, drink, be, blow, begin, slip · To what, where: much brandy, rock, stove

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 (you, wind, coffin), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brandy	amod
5	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drink	punct
7	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drink	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blows	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 blows	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blows	nsubj
17	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begins	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begins	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coffin	det
21	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begins	nsubj
22	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 blows	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 rock	mark
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begins	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slip	punct
26	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 begins	conj
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	30 stove	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 stove	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stove	det
30	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slip	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not drink	imperative · do-support	you not said here	much brandy			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brandy=Patient
2	drink	infinitive	you not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				right property	tree rules
4	blow	present	the wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	begin	present	the coffin	rock			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality
6	slip	present	the coffin not said here		the stove		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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