Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 108
And now go and serve in your parish faithfully; don't be greedy, and don't go hitting Nicholas over the shoulders with the keys."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, serve, not be, not go, hit · To what, where: Nicholas, shoulders
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 go | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 serve | cc |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 parish | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parish | nmod:poss |
| 8 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 serve | obl |
| 9 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 5 serve | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 greedy | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 greedy | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 greedy | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 greedy | cop |
| 14 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 greedy | conj |
| 20 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 go | xcomp |
| 21 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hitting | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 shoulders | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shoulders | det |
| 24 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hitting | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 keys | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 keys | det |
| 27 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hitting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | you not said here | in your parish; faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in parish=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not is | infinitive · do-support | greedy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not go | infinitive · do-support | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | hit | gerund | Nicholas | the shoulders | with the keys | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nicholas=Patient with key=Instrument |
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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