Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 58

Going a little further he tries a wolf, but the wolf succeeds no better than the bear.

Who acts: man, wolf · What happens: go, try, succeed · To what, where: little, wolf

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 (man, wolf), 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	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 further	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Going	obj
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 tries	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tries	nsubj
6	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tries	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 succeeds	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 succeeds	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 succeeds	nsubj
13	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tries	conj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 better	advmod
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 succeeds	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 bear	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 better	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund		a little		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=Theme
2	try	present	man	a wolf	far property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
3	succeed	present	the wolf		good property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: 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 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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