Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 115
We'll quaff a cup or two once more."
Who acts: We · What happens: quaff · To what, where: cup
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (We), 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 | 3 quaff | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 quaff | aux |
| 3 | quaff | quaff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quaff | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 two | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cup | conj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 quaff | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quaff | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quaff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quaff | future | We | a cup | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
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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