Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 13
“Woodsprite, help me on my way, for Dyád’ka the servant has drowned the King’s son!”
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: help, drown · To what, where: Father, way, servant
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 2 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woodsprite | punct |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drowned | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Dyád’ka | case |
| 11 | Dyád’ka | Dyád'ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drowned | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servant | det |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 drowned | aux |
| 15 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 help | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drowned | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | Woodsprite | Father | my way | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | drown in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the servant | for Dyád’ka; the King's son obj | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient son=Result |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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