Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 35
In vain does he attempt to save the twins from their impending fate, by concealing them in a secret abode constructed for that purpose underground.
Who acts: King, twins · What happens: attempt, save, conceal, construct, fate · To what, where: vain, twins, impending fate, secret abode
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, twins), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 attempt | obl |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attempt | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 attempt | nsubj |
| 5 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 attempt | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 twins | det |
| 9 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 save | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 fate | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | impending | impending | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fate | amod |
| 13 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concealing | punct |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 concealing | mark |
| 16 | concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 attempt | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 concealing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 abode | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 abode | det |
| 20 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 abode | compound |
| 21 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 concealing | obl |
| 22 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 abode | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 purpose | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 purpose | det |
| 25 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 constructed | obl |
| 26 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 22 constructed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present · do-support | King | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | the twins | twins's impending fate | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent twin=Theme from fate=Source | |||
| 3 | conceal | gerund | King not said here | twins = twin | a secret abode | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in abode=Location | |||
| 4 | construct | participle | a secret abode not said here | for that purpose; underground property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | fate | twins = twin | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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