Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 72
Provide yourself with a bridle, and take a thick aspen cudgel, and sit quietly in the izba--don't stir a step anywhere.
Who acts: you · What happens: provide, take, sit, not stir · To what, where: yourself, thick aspen cudgel, izba, step
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 | Provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Provide | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 bridle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bridle | det |
| 5 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Provide | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Provide | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cudgel | det |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cudgel | amod |
| 11 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cudgel | compound |
| 12 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sit | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sit | cc |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 sit | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 izba | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 izba | det |
| 19 | izba | izba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 stir | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 stir | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 stir | advmod |
| 23 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 sit | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 step | det |
| 25 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stir | obj |
| 26 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 stir | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Provide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | imperative | you not said here | yourself | with a bridle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient with bridle=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a thick aspen cudgel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cudgel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | infinitive | you not said here | the izba | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in izba=Location | |||
| 4 | not stir | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | a step | anywhere property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus step=Experiencer |
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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