Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 157

"Eh, brother!" replied the dead man, "surely it won't take long to toss off a glass!"

Who acts: Eh, it · What happens: reply, not take, toss off · To what, where: dead man, glass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Eh, it), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Eh	punct
2	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Eh	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
13	surely	surely	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
15	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 take	advmod
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	parataxis
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 take	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 toss	mark
20	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	advcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 toss	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 glass	det
23	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 toss	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: express	past	Eh	the dead man		tree rules
2	not take in a quote	future	it		long, surely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	toss off in a quote	to-infinitive		a glass		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=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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