Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 20
Run and lay your hands on a candle-end which has been lighted without a blessing having been uttered over it."
Who acts: you, blessing · What happens: run, lay, light, have, utter · To what, where: hands, candle end, blessing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blessing), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 8 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 candle | punct |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lighted | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 lighted | aux:pass |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 end | acl:relcl |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 blessing | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blessing | det |
| 17 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lighted | obl |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 blessing | acl |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 uttered | aux:pass |
| 20 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | xcomp |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 uttered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | your hands | on a candle end | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on end=Destination | |||
| 3 | light | present · perfect · passive | a candle end | without a blessing | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | a blessing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | utter speech: other | participle · passive | a blessing not said here | blessing | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S» |
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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