Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 181

At midnight, as soon as the wind begins to roar, and the coffin to rock, do you that very moment climb on to the stove-pipe, and cover yourself over with the frying-pan.

Who acts: wind, coffin · What happens: begin, roar, do, climb, cover over · To what, where: you, stove pipe, yourself

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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begins	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 midnight	punct
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 begins	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 begins	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begins	nsubj
9	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 roar	mark
11	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begins	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coffin	det
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rock	mark
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coffin	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coffin	punct
19	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 climb	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 do	obj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 you	nmod:unmarked
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 moment	advmod
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	obl:unmarked
24	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 begins	parataxis
25	on	on	ADV	_	24 climb	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 pipe	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pipe	det
28	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pipe	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 stove	punct
30	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 climb	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cover	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cover	cc
33	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 climb	conj
34	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 cover	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	33 cover	compound:prt
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 pan	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pan	det
38	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pan	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 frying	punct
40	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cover	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the wind			midnight	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roar	to-infinitive	the wind not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	the coffin	you		moment		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
4	climb	present			the stove pipe			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pipe=Destination
5	cover over	infinitive		yourself			with the frying pan	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination with pan=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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