Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 128
May God help thee always to do good!"
Who acts: thee, God · What happens: do, help · To what, where: good
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thee, God), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 God | aux |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nmod:poss |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 do | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | acl:relcl |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | thee | good | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | help | God | nom help «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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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