Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 21
Suppose we carry her off, brother, and let her live here and keep house for us."
Who acts: we, town · What happens: carry off, let, live, keep · To what, where: town, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, town), 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 | Suppose | suppose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 carry | nmod:poss |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 carry | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carry | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 live | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 live | conj |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present | we | town | brother obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | we not said here | town | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | town not said here | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | town not said here | house | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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