Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 16
“Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a dessert.”
Who acts: you · What happens: let, eat up, leave · To what, where: us, wafers, biscuits
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 eat | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wafers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wafers | wafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 biscuits | nmod:poss |
| 13 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leave | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 dessert | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dessert | det |
| 16 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | present | you not said here | my wafers | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wafer=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your biscuits | for a dessert | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme for dessert=Recipient |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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