Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 110
Set to work quickly, unless you want to taste worse of me and be birched.”
Who acts: you · What happens: set, work, want, taste, birch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. 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.
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 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 work | mark |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Set | xcomp |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 work | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 want | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Set | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 taste | mark |
| 10 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 taste | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 worse | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 birched | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 birched | aux:pass |
| 16 | birched | birch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 taste | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | you not said here | quickly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | birch | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP» |
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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