Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 68
Let me fiddle away a bit and cheer up the young people."
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, fiddle away, cheer up · To what, where: me, bit, young people
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, me), 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 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | fiddle | fiddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 fiddle | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fiddle | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cheer | cc |
| 8 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fiddle | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 cheer | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cheer | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 14 | " | " | 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 | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fiddle away | infinitive | me not said here | a bit | away property | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cheer up | present | me not said here | the young people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=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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