Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 106

But Ivan said, "Wait a minute, brothers; I'll try them first," and he took his mace, and struck the apple-tree with it.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: say, wait, try, take, strike · To what, where: brothers, mace, apple tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Wait	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Wait	punct
6	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wait	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brothers	punct
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 minute	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Wait	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	obj
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 try	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Wait	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Wait	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mace	nmod:poss
23	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 struck	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 struck	cc
26	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
28	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 apple	punct
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 struck	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ivan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait in a quote	infinitive			minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try in a quote	future	Ivan	brothers = brother		first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
4	take	past	IVAN	IVAN's mace			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme
5	strike	past	IVAN not said here	the apple tree		with tree	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with it=Instrument

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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