Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 117
On such a happy occasion as this meeting of ours, we may as well have a drink."
Who acts: we · What happens: have · To what, where: drink, happy occasion
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 occasion | case |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 occasion | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 occasion | det |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 occasion | amod |
| 5 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 meeting | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 meeting | det |
| 8 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occasion | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ours | case |
| 10 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meeting | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 occasion | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drink | det |
| 18 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | may | we | a drink | such happy occasion as this meeting of ours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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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