Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 105
Then the elder brothers said, "Let's eat an apple apiece."
Who acts: elder brothers, 's · What happens: say, let, eat · To what, where: 's, apple apiece · 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), 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 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 apiece | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 apiece | compound |
| 13 | apiece | apiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | eat in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | a apple apiece | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apiece=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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