Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 6

But suddenly, whilst she was rolling, she said, “My dear daughter, do come to me and help me roll Fílyushka’s little bones!”

Who acts: Búra, dear daughter · What happens: roll, say, come, help · To what, where: Búra, little bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Búra, dear daughter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 suddenly	punct
4	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	7 rolling	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rolling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rolling	aux
7	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rolling	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
13	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughter	amod
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
17	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	xcomp
25	Fílyushka	Fílyushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bones	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Fílyushka	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bones	amod
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roll	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	roll	past · progressive	Búra				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Búra			suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive · do-support	My dear daughter		Búra		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	help in a quote	infinitive	My dear daughter not said here	Búra			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	roll in a quote	infinitive	Búra not said here	Fílyushka's little bones			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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: «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 6