Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 96
She tried to drive him away, but there he stuck and would not move.
Who acts: daughter, Vikhor · What happens: try, drive away, stick, not move · To what, where: Vikhor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Vikhor), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 drive | mark |
| 4 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drive | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 drive | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stuck | expl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 move | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 move | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 move | advmod |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stuck | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | daughter | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drive away not said to happen | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | Vikhor | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | stick | past | Vikhor | there | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not move | would | Vikhor not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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