Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 35

Look! look! how we perish."

Who acts: you, we · What happens: look, perish

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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, 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 perish	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 perish	nsubj
7	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	look	infinitive	you not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	perish	present	we	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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