Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 65

The King thought and thought, but couldn't imagine a bit the more what use the Eaglet could be to him, and so he determined to shoot it.

Who acts: King · What happens: think, not imagine, use, be, determine, shoot · To what, where: Eaglet, bit · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 imagine	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 imagine	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 imagine	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 imagine	advmod
10	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 use	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 use	nsubj
16	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 imagine	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Eaglet	det
18	Eaglet	Eaglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 use	obj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 him	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 him	cop
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Eaglet	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 determined	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 determined	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 determined	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 determined	nsubj
27	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 shoot	mark
29	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 determined	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shoot	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the King			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the King not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not imagine	could				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	use	present		the Eaglet		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eaglet=Patient
5	is	could			to King	tree rules
6	determine	past	King			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	shoot	to-infinitive	King not said here	bit		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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