Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 163
So he stopped and asked his wife: “Are you helping me; to sing with a thin voice?”
Who acts: peasant, wife · What happens: stop, ask, help, sing · To what, where: wife, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 asked | cc |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 helping | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 helping | punct |
| 10 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 helping | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 helping | nsubj |
| 12 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 asked | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 helping | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sing | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sing | mark |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stopped | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sing | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | peasant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | peasant not said here | peasant's wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | present · progressive | peasant's wife = wife | peasant | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | with a thin voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
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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