Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 32
"We? we're travellers; please let us spend the night in your house," they replied.
Who acts: we, us, people · What happens: be, let, spend, reply · To what, where: travellers, us, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, us, people), 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 | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 travellers | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 travellers | cop |
| 6 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 We | parataxis |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 let | discourse |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spend | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spend | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spend | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | travellers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | We | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | your house | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal | |||
| 4 | reply speech: ask | past | people | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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