Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 96

As the merchant's daughter is dead, you see, her father will come after you, and will bid you to his house to read psalms over the dead body."

Who acts: you, father · What happens: be, see, come, bid, read · To what, where: you, psalms, dead body

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, father), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 daughter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 merchant	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	conj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bid	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bid	cc
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bid	aux
21	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 bid	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 house	nmod:poss
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bid	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 read	mark
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bid	advcl
28	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 read	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	32 body	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 body	det
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 body	amod
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 read	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					as the merchant's daughter; dead property	tree rules
2	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	future	grandson's father			after you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bid	future	you not said here	you			to father's house	tree rules
5	read	to-infinitive	you not said here	psalms	the dead body			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic

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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