Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 161

"Turn your back to the lake and walk backwards," said the old man.

Who acts: old man · What happens: turn, walk, say · To what, where: back, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 Turn	punct
2	Turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Turn	conj
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	infinitive		your back	the lake		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to lake=Trajectory
2	walk in a quote	infinitive				backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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