Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 121
Be off after them again, and mind, this time tear them to pieces without fail."
Who acts: mind · What happens: be, tear · To what, where: lad
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 off | cop |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 tear | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 off | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 off | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tear | cc |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tear | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mind | conj |
| 12 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tear | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tear | obl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 fail | case |
| 17 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tear | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | after lad; again | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | infinitive | mind and this time | lad | to pieces result; without fail | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result |
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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