Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 55

Here also did he try his strength, heaving aloft a ball which weighed some fifteen hundred poods.

Who acts: Ivan, aloft ball · What happens: try, heave, weigh · To what, where: strength, aloft ball, hundred poods

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, aloft ball), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 try	advmod
2	also	also	ADV	_	5 try	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 strength	nmod:poss
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heaving	punct
9	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 try	advcl
10	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ball	amod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heaving	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 weighed	nsubj
14	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ball	acl:relcl
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 poods	det
16	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 poods	nummod
18	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 weighed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	Ivan	Ivan's strength	here	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality
2	heave	gerund	Ivan not said here	a aloft ball		vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	weigh	past	a aloft ball	some hundred poods		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pood=Value

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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