Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 8
When this, by the daughter's help, is done, he is told to gather up the seed again.
Who acts: help, daughter · What happens: do, tell, gather up, help · To what, where: help, seed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, daughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 When | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 help | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 done | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 gather | mark |
| 17 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 gather | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 seed | det |
| 20 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gather | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 gather | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | the daughter's help | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | help | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gather up not said to happen | to-infinitive | help not said here | the seed | again | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | the daughter | 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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