Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 162
“Well, let us come and sleep on the perch.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, come, sleep · To what, where: us, perch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. 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.
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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sleep | cc |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 perch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 perch | det |
| 11 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the perch | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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