Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 155
Let us quaff a glass apiece of grateful drink."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, quaff · To what, where: us, glass apiece
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 (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | quaff | quaff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 apiece | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apiece | compound |
| 6 | apiece | apiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quaff | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 drink | case |
| 8 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drink | amod |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apiece | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quaff | infinitive | us not said here | a glass apiece of grateful drink | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apiece=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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