Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 26
"If you get out of here, tell my children to dig up the money--one pot is buried at the gate, and the other in the corn-kiln--and to distribute it among the poor."
Who acts: children · What happens: get out, tell, dig up, bury, distribute · To what, where: children, money, one pot, gate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children), 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 | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 here | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 here | case |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dig | mark |
| 13 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 dig | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dig | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 buried | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pot | nummod |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 buried | aux:pass |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tell | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 gate | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gate | det |
| 24 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 other | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 other | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 buried | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 kiln | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 kiln | det |
| 31 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kiln | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 corn | punct |
| 33 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 other | obl |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 distribute | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 distribute | cc |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 distribute | mark |
| 37 | distribute | distribute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 distribute | obj |
| 39 | among | among | ADP | _ | 41 poor | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 poor | det |
| 41 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 distribute | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my children = child | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | my children = child not said here | my children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dig up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the money | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury in a quote | present · passive | one pot | the gate | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination | ||||
| 5 | distribute in a quote | to-infinitive | my children = child not said here | money | among the poor | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme among poor=Recipient |
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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