Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 91
Fence thyself about with thy boards, sprinkle thyself all about with holy water, incense thyself with holy incense, and take me with thee.
Who acts: you · What happens: sprinkle, take · To what, where: Fence, me
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 | Fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprinkle | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 1 Fence | nmod |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 boards | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 boards | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 boards | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fence | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fence | punct |
| 8 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 8 sprinkle | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 about | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 sprinkle | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprinkle | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 incense | punct |
| 16 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 17 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 14 water | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 incense | case |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 incense | amod |
| 20 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thyself | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprinkle | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprinkle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | imperative | you not said here | Fence thyself with thy boards | with holy water thyself and incense; about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | me | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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