Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 82

When you come into the house where the youngsters were killed, pour some live coals into a pot and put the piece of the shroud in with them, and then lock the door.

Who acts: you · What happens: come, kill, pour, put in, lock · To what, where: house, youngsters, live coals, pot, piece, door

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pour	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 killed	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngsters	det
9	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 killed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux:pass
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 house	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
13	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 coals	det
15	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coals	amod
16	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pour	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 pot	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pour	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 pour	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 piece	det
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 shroud	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shroud	det
26	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	21 put	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lock	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lock	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 lock	advmod
33	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 pour	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lock	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	you		the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	kill	past · passive		the youngsters				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	pour	imperative	you not said here	some live coals	a pot			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into pot=Destination
4	put in	infinitive	you not said here	the piece of the shroud			with youngsters = youngster	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
5	lock	infinitive	you not said here	the door		then		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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