Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 73
"Give me my lid: if you don't, I'll tear you to bits!"
Who acts: you, numbers · What happens: give, not do, tear · To what, where: lid, numbers, you
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 (you, numbers), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lid | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 tear | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tear | advcl |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tear | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tear | aux |
| 14 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tear | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bits | case |
| 17 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tear | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my lid | numbers = number | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lid=Theme | |||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tear in a quote | future | numbers = number | you | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to bit=Result |
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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