Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 87

Come now, my darling wife! and let us bury them both lest he take them!"--"Nay, nay! my dear husband, we had better hide them somewhere.

Who acts: you, us, wanton, we · What happens: come, let, bury, take, have, hide · To what, where: darling wife, us, oxen

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. 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, wanton, we), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bury	obj
13	both	both	ADV	_	11 bury	advmod
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bury	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Nay	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Nay	punct
22	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	1 Come	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Nay	punct
24	nay	nay	INTJ	_	1 Come	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
27	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 husband	amod
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	advcl
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 hide	csubj
33	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hide	obj
35	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 hide	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	my darling wife	now	my dear husband obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
3	bury	infinitive	us not said here	oxen = ox		both property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	take	infinitive	wanton	oxen = ox			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	have	past	we				tree rules
6	hide	infinitive	we not said here	oxen = ox		somewhere property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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