Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 104
"Now then, Mother Wednesday, lend me thy aid, that I may get up early in the morning and finish my spinning."
Who acts: Mother, crew, my · What happens: lend, get up, finish, spin · To what, where: aid, crew, spinning
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, crew, 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 | _ | 8 lend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lend | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lend | nsubj |
| 6 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mother | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mother | punct |
| 8 | lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lend | iobj |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 aid | nmod:poss |
| 11 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lend | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lend | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 get | compound:prt |
| 18 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 get | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 finish | cc |
| 23 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 25 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finish | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lend | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend in a quote | infinitive | Mother | thy aid | crew | then | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient aid=Theme | ||
| 2 | get up in a quote | may | crew | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | finish in a quote | infinitive | crew not said here | my spinning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spinning=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | spin in a quote | my | nom spinning «act 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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