Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 41

Vasilissa the Wise! how can I help crying?

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: help, cry

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa), 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	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 help	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wise	det
3	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Vasilissa	appos
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Vasilissa	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 help	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 help	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	Vasilissa						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.

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