Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 88

But the Eagle didn't let him drown! it jerked him on to its wing, and asked:--

Who acts: Eagle, King, sea · What happens: not let, drown, jerk on, ask · To what, where: King, Eagle

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 (Eagle, King, sea), 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	_	6 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eagle	det
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 jerked	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jerked	nsubj
11	jerked	jerk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drown	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jerked	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	11 jerked	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wing	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wing	nmod:poss
16	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jerked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 let	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	the Eagle	King		tree rules
2	drown	infinitive	King not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	jerk on	past	sea	Eagle	to sea's wing	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Eagle not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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