Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 123
"What is there to do! let's go into the yard and play at hide-and-seek."
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: be, do, let, go, play · To what, where: 's, hide
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, '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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | xcomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 yard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 play | cc |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hide | case |
| 17 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 seek | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seek | cc |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hide | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | into the yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | play in a quote | present | 's not said here | hide and seek | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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