Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 160

Let us go to the steppes," it continued, "and let me go a-browsing; but do thou strip thyself stark-naked and lie down in the grass, and the Bird Zhar will straightway swoop down to feed.

Who acts: you, us, task, me, Bird Zhar · What happens: let, go, continue, browse, do, strip · To what, where: us, steppes, me, thou, thyself, grass

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. 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, task, me), 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	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 steppes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steppes	det
6	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steppes	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 browsing	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 a	punct
19	browsing	browse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 go	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 do	obj
24	strip	strip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 do	conj
25	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	24 strip	obj
26	stark	stark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 naked	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 stark	punct
28	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strip	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lie	cc
30	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 do	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 lie	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 grass	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grass	det
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lie	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 swoop	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 swoop	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Zhar	det
38	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Zhar	compound
39	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 swoop	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 swoop	aux
41	straightway	straightway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 swoop	amod
42	swoop	swoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	parataxis
43	down	down	ADV	_	42 swoop	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 feed	mark
45	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 swoop	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	us not said here		the steppes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steppe=Initial_Location
3	continue in a quote	past	task	the steppes not said here			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent steppe=Theme
4	let	infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	browse	gerund	me not said here				tree rules
7	do	infinitive	you not said here	thou			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality
8	strip	infinitive	you not said here	thyself		naked property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient
9	lie down	infinitive	you not said here		the grass	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location
10	swoop down	future	the Bird Zhar			down property	tree rules
11	feed	to-infinitive	the Bird Zhar not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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: «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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