Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 16

So she went a little way into the water and began trying to get hold of it.

Who acts: maid · What happens: go, begin, try, get, hold · To what, where: little way, water, hold

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hold	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	maid	a little way	the water	tree rules
2	begin	past	maid not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	try	gerund	maid not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	maid not said here	hold of water		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	hold			water		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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