Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 92
"Help me, brother, to get my cart out of the mud!" says the peasant.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: help, get, say · To what, where: peasant, cart, mud · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 2 | Help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 says | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Help | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Help | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Help | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 mud | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mud | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mud | det |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 peasant | det |
| 19 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | the peasant = peasant | brother obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | my cart | the mud | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cart=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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