Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 70

Woe told the peasant to lift the stone; the peasant lifted it, Woe helping him.

Who acts: Woe, peasant · What happens: tell, lift, help · To what, where: peasant, stone, place · 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, peasant), 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	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lift	mark
6	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lift	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lifted	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	nsubj
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lifted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helping	punct
15	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 helping	nsubj
16	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lifted	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helping	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Woe		the peasant	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lift not said to happen	to-infinitive	Woe not said here	the stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	lift	past	the peasant	place		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	help	gerund	Woe		peasant	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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