Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 7
When you go into the church, trace a circle round you; then read away from your psalter and don't look behind you.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, trace, read, not look · To what, where: church, circle
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trace | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 8 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 circle | det |
| 10 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trace | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 trace | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 read | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 read | advmod |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 trace | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 read | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 psalter | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 psalter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | psalter | psalter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 look | cc |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 look | advmod |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 read | conj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | trace | imperative | you not said here | a circle | round you | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Theme | |||
| 3 | read | infinitive | then | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not look | infinitive · do-support | behind you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind you=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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