Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 3
Let's kill a goat and bury it in the cellar, and hide the body of the dead man in some other place."
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: let, kill, bury, hide · To what, where: 's, goat, cellar, body, other place
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, 's), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bury | cc |
| 7 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bury | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cellar | det |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bury | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hide | cc |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 body | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 place | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | 's not said here | a goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bury | infinitive | 's not said here | goat | the cellar | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cellar=Destination | |||
| 4 | hide | infinitive | you not said here | the body of the dead man | some other place | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Patient in place=Location |
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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