Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 73
During the night she will come running in, and if she manages to say before you can 'Stand still, my steed!' you will straightway turn into a horse.
Who acts: fix, you · What happens: come, run, manage, say, stand, turn · To what, where: steed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fix, 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 come | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 running | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 manages | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 manages | nsubj |
| 13 | manages | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | parataxis |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 Stand | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 Stand | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 Stand | aux |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Stand | punct |
| 20 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 straightway | advcl |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 Stand | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 steed | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 steed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Stand | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Stand | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Stand | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 straightway | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 straightway | aux |
| 29 | straightway | straightway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 say | ccomp |
| 30 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 straightway | ccomp |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 horse | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 horse | det |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | fix | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | fix not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | manage a condition, not said to happen | present | fix | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stand | can | you | my steed | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | turn | infinitive | into a horse result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=Result |
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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