Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 137
"Let's get rid of him, money and all," thinks the old man; "I've lived before now without money, and now I'll go on living without it."
Who acts: you, 's, old man · What happens: let, get, think, live, go · To what, where: 's · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's, old man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 money | punct |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 money | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinks | punct |
| 14 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thinks | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | aux |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thinks | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 now | case |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lived | obl |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 money | case |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 go | cc |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 go | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 31 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 33 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 34 living | mark |
| 34 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 go | advcl |
| 35 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 living | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | 's | money obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | the old man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present · perfect | the old man = man | without money | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before now=Location | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | future | the old man = man | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live in a quote | gerund | the old man = man not said here | without money | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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