Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 81

"Sell all your corn at once, just as it stands, to the Priest of Elijah.

Who acts: you, Corn · What happens: sell, stand · To what, where: corn

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, Corn), 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 Sell	punct
2	Sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 corn	det:predet
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 corn	nmod:poss
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sell	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Sell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stands	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 stands	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 stands	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stands	nsubj
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Sell	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Priest	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Priest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Priest	det
16	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stands	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Elijah	case
18	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Priest	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your corn					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent corn=Theme at once=Asset
2	stand in a quote	present	Corn					to the Priest of Elijah	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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