Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 88
Let us dig a ditch by our hut--just under the gables!"
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, dig · To what, where: us, ditch, gables
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), 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ditch | det |
| 5 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dig | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hut | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dig | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 gables | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 gables | advmod |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 gables | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gables | det |
| 13 | gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | 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 | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dig | infinitive | us not said here | a ditch | the gables | by our hut | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ditch=Theme by hut=Location |
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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