Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 137
There was no help for it; off set the seigneur.
Who acts: help · What happens: be, set · To what, where: seigneur
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seigneur | det |
| 11 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for smithy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | no help for smithy not said here | the seigneur | off property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient seigneur=Result |
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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