Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 44
We've business to look after; don't you meddle."
Who acts: you · What happens: look after, do, not meddle
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 've | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 've | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 business | acl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 look | compound:prt |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 've | conj |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 meddle | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 meddle | nsubj |
| 11 | meddle | meddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 've | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 've | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look after | to-infinitive | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not meddle | present | you | tree rules |
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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