Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 25
But she could not help herself, so she strengthened her heart and lay down with him.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: not help, strengthen, lay down · To what, where: daughter, heart
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 help | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strengthened | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 strengthened | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 strengthened | nsubj |
| 10 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strengthened | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | daughter | daughter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | strengthen | past | daughter | daughter's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | daughter not said here | with monster; down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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