Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 1
"My mother's blessing assists me," replied Vasilissa.
Who acts: blessing, Vasilissa, mother · What happens: assist, reply, bless · To what, where: Vasilissa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, Vasilissa, mother), 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 | _ | 6 assists | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mother | case |
| 5 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assists | nsubj |
| 6 | assists | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 assists | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 assists | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 assists | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assists | ccomp |
| 11 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist in a quote | present | My mother's blessing | Vasilissa | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Vasilissa | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bless in a quote | My mother | nom blessing «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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