Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 178
Buy yourself a frying-pan, and hide it so that the merchant sha'n't see it.
Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: buy, hide, not see · To what, where: frying pan, yourself, pan
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, merchant), 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 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Buy | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pan | det |
| 4 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pan | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 frying | punct |
| 6 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hide | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hide | cc |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Buy | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hide | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 see | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | sha' | sha' | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hide | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | imperative | you not said here | a frying pan | yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary pan=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | infinitive | you not said here | pan | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not see | the merchant | pan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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