Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 158
"Ah, brother mine! do help me a bit in my trouble.
Who acts: fish, my · What happens: help, trouble · To what, where: fish, trouble
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 (fish, my), 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 mine | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mine | dislocated |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 help | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mine | punct |
| 7 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trouble | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | fish | fish | my trouble | a bit obl:unmarked | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | trouble in a quote | my | nom trouble «cognition 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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