Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 25

Knock them into the four corners of the coffin, and when you begin reading the psalter, stick up the hammer in front of you."

Who acts: you · What happens: knock, begin, read, stick up · To what, where: hammer, four corners, psalter, front

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), 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	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knock	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 corners	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corners	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 corners	nummod
6	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knock	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 coffin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coffin	det
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corners	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stick	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stick	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 begin	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
14	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stick	advcl
15	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 begin	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 psalter	det
17	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reading	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
19	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Knock	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 stick	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hammer	det
22	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 front	case
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 front	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Knock	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	knock	imperative	you not said here	hammer	the four corners of the coffin	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into corner=Destination
2	begin	present	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	read	gerund	you not said here	the psalter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic
4	stick up	infinitive	you not said here	the hammer	front of you	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme in front=Destination

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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