Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 100

He cried out to me, saying, 'Help me to get my cart out!'

Who acts: Moujik, me · What happens: cry out, say, help, get out · To what, where: me, cart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Moujik, me), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 cried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cried	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Help	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Help	punct
10	Help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Help	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Help	xcomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cart	nmod:poss
15	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 get	compound:prt
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Help	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	Moujik		me	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Moujik not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	infinitive		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	get out	to-infinitive	me not said here	my cart		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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