Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 15
"Silly fellow!" she cried, "to suffer, and not to ask the old woman's help!
Who acts: woman, old woman · What happens: cry, suffer, not ask, help · To what, where: help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 suffer | mark |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ask | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the old woman's help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | the old woman | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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