Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 153
"How can I help weeping!" answers the King. "
Who acts: King · What happens: help, weep, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answers | csubj |
| 6 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answers | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answers | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | the King = king | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: express | present | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/153/