Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 9

If thou canst find it to-morrow, and bring it hither while we are sitting down to meat, thou shalt remain alive; if not, 'tis all over with thee!"

Who acts: thou, you, we · What happens: find, bring, sit down, remain · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. 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, we), 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	_	4 find	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 find	nsubj
3	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bring	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 morrow	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bring	cc
11	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bring	obj
13	hither	hither	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 sitting	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sitting	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 bring	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 meat	case
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remain	punct
22	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 remain	nsubj
23	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	24 remain	aux
24	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bring	conj
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 remain	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tis	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 not	mark
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 tis	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 not	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 tis	punct
31	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	conj
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 over	advmod
33	over	over	ADV	_	31 tis	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 thee	case
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 tis	nmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen	can	thou	water	to morrow	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	bring	imperative	you not said here	water	hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	sit down	present · progressive	we		to meat; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remain	shall	thou		alive property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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