Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 18

"If you go and sit on the stove behind the chimney-pipe, and don't eat anything for three years--then you will remain safe."

Who acts: you · What happens: go, sit, not eat, remain · To what, where: stove, anything

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sit	cc
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stove	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 pipe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pipe	det
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pipe	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 chimney	punct
14	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stove	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eat	cc
17	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 eat	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 eat	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 remain	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 remain	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remain	aux
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eat	conj
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 remain	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	you					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit in a quote	present	you not said here		the stove behind the chimney pipe			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stove=Location
3	not eat in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	anything		year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	remain in a quote	future	you			then	safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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