Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 156
"Suppose I go to town, and ask my brother whether he won't do something to help us."
Who acts: I, fish · What happens: go, ask, not do, help · To what, where: town, brother, something, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fish), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Suppose | suppose | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ask | cc |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obj |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ask | ccomp |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | acl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | I | town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | my brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | future | fish | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | fish not said here | something not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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