Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 79

So when he came thither and fell a-weeping, she asked him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"--And he said, "How can I help weeping?

Who acts: Ivan, dragon · What happens: come, fall, ask, do, weep, say · To what, where: weeping, Ivan, thou · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, dragon), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thither	thither	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 weeping	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 a	punct
10	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dost	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 dost	punct
17	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dost	advmod
18	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 dost	obj
20	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dost	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 weep	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 weep	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
29	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 help	advmod
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 help	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 help	nsubj
32	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
33	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 help	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Ivan			thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	Ivan not said here	a weeping			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result
3	ask speech: ask	past	dragon		Ivan		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present		thou		wherefore property	tree rules
5	weep in a quote	infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: ask	past	Ivan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	help in a quote	can	Ivan				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	weep in a quote	gerund					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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