Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 100

Then the elder brothers said, "Let's turn out our horses to graze here, while we rest ourselves a little."

Who acts: elder brothers, 's, we · What happens: say, let, turn out, graze, rest · To what, where: 's, horses, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brothers, 's, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
8	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Let	obj
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Let	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 turn	compound:prt
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horses	nmod:poss
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 graze	mark
15	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turn	advcl
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 graze	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 rest	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 rest	nsubj
20	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	conj
21	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 rest	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rest	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the elder brothers			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		's				tree rules
3	turn out in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	our horses				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
4	graze in a quote	to-infinitive	's not said here		here			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest in a quote	present	we	ourselves			a little obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ourselves=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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