Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 23

If any one were to make a pyre of aspen boughs, a hundred loads of them, and were to burn me on that pyre, then he'd be able to get the better of me.

Who acts: one, Soldier · What happens: make, burn, be, get · To what, where: pyre, me

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Soldier), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pyre	det
8	pyre	pyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boughs	case
10	aspen	aspen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boughs	amod
11	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pyre	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loads	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 loads	nummod
15	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 boughs	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loads	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 burn	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 burn	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burn	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	22 burn	mark
22	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 burn	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 pyre	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 pyre	det
26	pyre	pyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burn	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 able	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 able	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
30	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 able	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 get	mark
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 better	det
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 get	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 better	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	any one	a pyre of aspen boughs				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pyre=Product
2	burn	past	any one not said here	me	that pyre			tree rules
3	is	would	Soldier			then	able property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	Soldier not said here				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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