Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 109

He told the gnat all about it, and the gnat said, "Thou didst help me, so now I will help thee.

Who acts: Ivan, gnat, Thou · What happens: tell, say, do, help · To what, where: gnat, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, gnat, Thou), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gnat	det
4	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gnat	det
11	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 didst	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 didst	punct
15	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 didst	nsubj
16	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 didst	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 help	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 help	advmod
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 help	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 help	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 didst	advcl
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 help	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ivan		the gnat		about gnat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gnat=Recipient about it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the gnat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	past	Thou					tree rules
4	help in a quote	infinitive	Thou not said here		the gnat = gnat			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	help in a quote	future	the gnat = gnat	thee		now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary

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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