Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 20

At first he wouldn't believe her, but at last he determined to go to the river and see for himself what sort of barrel it was that was floating there.

Who acts: straightway, sort · What happens: not believe, determine, go, see, float, sort · To what, where: maid, last, river, barrel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (straightway, sort), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 believe	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 believe	advmod
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 determined	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 determined	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determined	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 determined	nsubj
13	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 see	obl
23	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 floating	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 barrel	case
26	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 floating	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 floating	aux
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 floating	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 floating	aux
31	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 see	ccomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 floating	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	straightway	maid			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	determine	past	straightway		last		vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	to-infinitive	straightway not said here		the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
4	see	infinitive	straightway not said here			for straightway	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	float	past · progressive	what sort of barrel		there		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sort			barrel			nom sort «cognition 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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