Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 66
If thou dost not lie down properly, I will give thee the one leathering with a stick.'
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: not lie down, give · To what, where: one leathering, thee
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 lie | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lie | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lie | advmod |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 lie | compound:prt |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 lie | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leathering | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leathering | compound |
| 15 | leathering | leathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stick | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leathering | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie down a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | properly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | the one leathering | thee | with a stick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient leathering=Theme |
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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