Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 60
Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, fence, take · To what, where: middle, basket
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 middle | advmod |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fenced | punct |
| 10 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Stand | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 fenced | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 fenced | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 laths | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 laths | nmod:poss |
| 15 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fenced | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boards | cc |
| 17 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laths | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 take | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 basket | det |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 basket | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pears | case |
| 27 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the middle of the church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | fence | participle | you not said here | with thy laths and boards; about, round property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lath=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a basket | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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