Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 97
While he is tugging away at them he catches sight of Vanka, and immediately asks him to help him home with his load.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tug away, catch, ask, help, sight · To what, where: sight, boy, Vanka
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 tugging | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tugging | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tugging | aux |
| 4 | tugging | tug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 catches | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 tugging | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tugging | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 catches | nsubj |
| 9 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catches | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Vanka | case |
| 12 | Vanka | Vanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asks | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asks | cc |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 asks | advmod |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 catches | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asks | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asks | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 help | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 load | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 load | nmod:poss |
| 24 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 catches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tug away | present · progressive | boy | at turnips = turnip; away property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | boy | sight of Vanka | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | boy not said here | boy | immediately property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy | with boy's load; home property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with load=Theme | |||
| 5 | sight | Vanka | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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