Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 6
But whatever thou doest, don't break it on thy way home, or all thy luck will leave thee."
Who acts: thou, you, luck · What happens: do, not break, leave · To what, where: whatever, egg, way, thee
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, you, luck), 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 | _ | 8 break | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 doest | obj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 doest | nsubj |
| 4 | doest | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doest | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 break | advmod |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 break | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | obl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 break | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 luck | det |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 luck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 break | conj |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | thou | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not break | imperative · do-support | you not said here | egg | thy way | home property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||
| 3 | leave | future | thy luck | thee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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