Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 231

Only here was a wonder! all day long the babe would take no food, and did nothing but cry; there was no soothing it anyhow.

Who acts: babe · What happens: be, take, do, soothe · To what, where: wonder, food, nothing, babe

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (babe), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 here	advmod
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wonder	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wonder	det
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 take	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 babe	det
11	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 here	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 food	det
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 here	csubj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 did	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cry	cc
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 was	obj
26	soothing	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 no	acl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 soothing	obj
28	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	26 soothing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			day	here property	tree rules
2	is a	past		a wonder			tree rules
3	take	would	the babe	no food		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	do	past		nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	soothe	gerund		babe		anyhow property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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