Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 91

"My Father!" says the Prince; "let an old fellow of ours have a scrub first, just to try the bath-room."

Who acts: Father, old fellow · What happens: say, let, have, try · To what, where: scrub, bath room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, old fellow), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Father	nmod:poss
3	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Father	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ours	case
16	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fellow	nmod
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scrub	det
19	scrub	scrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 have	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 try	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	24 try	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
26	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 room	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 bath	punct
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My Father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	a old fellow of ours	a scrub	first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrub=Patient
4	try in a quote	to-infinitive		the bath room		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Eventuality

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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