Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 146
And all that they tried, and all that they did, even to taking the money back to the old man, was of no avail.
Who acts: horns · What happens: try, do, take back, be · To what, where: money, old man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tried | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 tried | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 tried | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 did | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 taking | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 did | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 taking | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 avail | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 avail | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 avail | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 avail | det |
| 27 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | horns = horn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | past | horns = horn | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take back | gerund | horns = horn not said here | the money | the old man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme to man=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | of no avail | tree rules |
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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