Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 24
Look here," they say, "let's go into that cottage."
Who acts: you, eyes, 's · What happens: look, say, let, go · To what, where: 's, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 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 (you, eyes, '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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 10 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | eyes = eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | 's not said here | that cottage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cottage=Initial_Location |
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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