Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 8
Whatever happens there, whatever horrors may appear, mind your own business and go on reading, reading.
Who acts: Whatever, horrors · What happens: happen, appear, mind, go · To what, where: whatever, own business, reading
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 (Whatever, horrors), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 happens | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appear | punct |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 appear | obj |
| 6 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 appear | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 appear | aux |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happens | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 10 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 appear | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 business | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 business | amod |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mind | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 reading | case |
| 17 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reading | punct |
| 19 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reading | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Whatever | there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | may | horrors | whatever | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whatever=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mind | infinitive | horrors not said here | your own business | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | horrors not said here | reading and reading | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on reading=Location |
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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