Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 147

He thought and thought, and at last couldn't hold out any more--he longed so awfully to know all about it.

Who acts: King · What happens: think, not hold out, long, know · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hold	obl
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hold	advmod
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 hold	compound:prt
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 hold	advmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 longed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 longed	nsubj
17	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 awfully	advmod
19	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	17 longed	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 longed	advcl
22	all	all	ADV	_	24 it	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	King			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	King not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not hold out	could		last		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	long	past	King		awfully property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	know	to-infinitive	King not said here		about shore	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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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