Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 139

"Mind," says he, "when you begin threshing your corn, never put more than one sheaf at a time on the threshing-floor."

Who acts: you · What happens: say, begin, thresh, not put · To what, where: Nicholas, corn, one sheaf, threshing floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (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	_	2 Mind	punct
2	Mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mind	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mind	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begin	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 begin	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 begin	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 begin	nsubj
11	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
12	threshing	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 begin	xcomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 corn	nmod:poss
14	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threshing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 put	advmod
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 begin	conj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	20 one	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	18 more	fixed
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sheaf	nummod
21	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 floor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
27	threshing	threshing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 floor	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 threshing	punct
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Nicholas			tree rules
2	begin in a quote	present	you				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	thresh in a quote	gerund	you not said here	your corn			tree rules
4	not put in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	one sheaf	the threshing floor	time	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme on floor=Destination

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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