Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 63

Amuse yourself while you're young!"

Who acts: you · What happens: amuse, be · To what, where: yourself

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (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	Amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Amuse	obj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 young	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 young	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Amuse	advcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Amuse	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Amuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	amuse	imperative	you not said here	yourself					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
2	is	present	you					young property	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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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