Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 161
"Work for me this week, then I'll help you," said his brother.
Who acts: brother · What happens: work, help, say · To what, where: you · 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 (brother), 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 | _ | 2 Work | punct |
| 2 | Work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Work | obl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Work | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 help | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Work | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Work | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | infinitive | week | for fish's brother = brother | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | future | fish's brother = brother | you | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fish's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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