Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 4
If you want to go on living in the white world, then do what I tell you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: want, go, live, do, tell · To what, where: white world, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 living | mark |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | amod |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 living | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | you not said here | the white world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | present | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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