Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 5
But if you don't follow my instructions, you'll never get out of here alive!"
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not follow, not get out, instruct · To what, where: instructions
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, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 follow | advmod |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 here | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 here | case |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 get | advmod |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 here | amod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | my instructions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get out | future | you | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | instruct | my | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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