Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 69
"Lend a hand, reverend father, to get my old woman buried."
Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: lend, get, bury · To what, where: hand, old woman
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
| 2 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lend | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 6 | reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | compound |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Lend | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 woman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 14 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 get | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a hand and reverend father | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bury in a quote | participle | my old woman not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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