Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 11

"Well then," say the spinners, "if you're not afraid, go past the graveyard to the church, take down the holy picture from the door, and bring it here."

Who acts: spinners, you · What happens: say, not be, go, take down, bring · To what, where: graveyard, holy picture, door, picture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinners, 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	_	6 say	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spinners	det
8	spinners	spinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 afraid	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 afraid	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 afraid	advmod
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 go	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	conj
18	past	past	ADP	_	20 graveyard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 graveyard	det
20	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 church	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 church	det
23	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
25	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 take	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 picture	det
28	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 picture	amod
29	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 picture	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
35	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 bring	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	the spinners			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				afraid property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	the spinners not said here		the graveyard		to the church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme past graveyard=Initial_Location to church=Destination
4	take down in a quote	infinitive	the spinners not said here	the holy picture	the door			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
5	bring in a quote	infinitive	the spinners not said here	picture	here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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