Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 50

He'd make folks laugh and put us to confusion; let's go by ourselves."

Who acts: Vanyusha, folks, 's · What happens: make, laugh, put, let, go · To what, where: folks, us, 's

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 (Vanyusha, folks, '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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 laugh	conj
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 confusion	case
10	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
13	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 ourselves	case
16	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 go	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	would	Vanyusha	folks			tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	folks not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	infinitive	folks not said here		us	to confusion	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=Goal
4	let	infinitive	Vanyusha not said here	's			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	's not said here			by ourselves	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ourselves=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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