Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 1
"Come along, brother," says he, "let's enjoy ourselves.
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: come along, say, let, enjoy · To what, where: he, 's, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along in a quote | imperative | you not said here | brother vocative; along property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enjoy in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | ourselves | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ourselves=Stimulus |
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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