Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 38
Keep this doll always by you, but show it to nobody, and no misfortune can befall you.
Who acts: you, misfortune · What happens: keep, show, befall · To what, where: doll, nobody, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, misfortune), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 doll | det |
| 3 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 show | cc |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 show | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 nobody | case |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 show | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 befall | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 befall | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 misfortune | det |
| 16 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befall | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 befall | aux |
| 18 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 befall | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | this doll | by you; always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent doll=Theme by you=Location | |||
| 2 | show | infinitive | you not said here | doll | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to nobody=Recipient | |||
| 3 | befall | can | no misfortune | you | tree rules |
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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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