Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 132

"Sit thee down, my brother!" she said, "play a tune on the lute while I go and get dinner ready."

Who acts: you, Vertogor · What happens: sit down, say, play, go, get · To what, where: thee, tune, lute, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Vertogor), 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	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Sit	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tune	det
16	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 lute	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lute	det
19	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	obl
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 play	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
24	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 go	conj
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 get	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	imperative	you not said here	thee		my brother obl	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Vertogor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play in a quote	infinitive		a tune	the lute		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
4	go in a quote	present	Vertogor				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get in a quote	present	Vertogor not said here	dinner		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus

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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