Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 23
"Yes, master," answered Woe: "it's I that's helping you."
Who acts: Woe · What happens: answer, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Woe), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 master | punct |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 helping | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 helping | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 helping | cop |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 helping | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 helping | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 helping | aux |
| 16 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 helping | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 helping | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 helping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Woe | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · progressive | Woe | help property | tree rules |
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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