Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 110
And the elder brothers cried, "Let's have a drink of water."
Who acts: elder brothers, 's · What happens: cry, let, have · To what, where: 's, drink · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 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 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | 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 cried | ccomp |
| 9 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Let | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drink | det |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drink | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the elder brothers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | a drink of water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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