Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 13
"Is it you that's helping me to sing with that thin little voice?"
Who acts: it · What happens: be, sing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | _ | 7 helping | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 helping | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helping | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 helping | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 helping | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 helping | aux |
| 7 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 helping | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sing | mark |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helping | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 voice | nsubj |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sing | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 helping | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 helping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · progressive | it | help property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | with thin little voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
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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