Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 100

Suppose I make use of a little diplomacy, and play him some sort of a trick!"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: suppose, make, play, use, sort · To what, where: use, sort, DEMON, little diplomacy, trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	ccomp
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 diplomacy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 diplomacy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 diplomacy	amod
8	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 play	cc
11	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 play	obj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 trick	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 trick	det
17	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	present	I	use of a little diplomacy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
3	play	infinitive		some sort of a trick	DEMON	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary sort=Theme
4	use			a little diplomacy		nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
5	sort			a trick		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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