Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 39
There they make a second attempt at escape, trusting this time to an eagle's aid; but it meets with exactly the same fate as their first trial.
Who acts: twins, attempt · What happens: make, trust, meet, try · To what, where: second attempt, escape, aid
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 (twins, attempt), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 make | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 attempt | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 attempt | amod |
| 6 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 escape | case |
| 8 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trusting | punct |
| 10 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trusting | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 aid | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 aid | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 eagle | case |
| 17 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trusting | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 meets | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 meets | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meets | nsubj |
| 21 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fate | case |
| 23 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 26 fate | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fate | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fate | amod |
| 26 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meets | obl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 trial | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 trial | nmod:poss |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 trial | amod |
| 30 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meets | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | twins = twin | a second attempt | escape; there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | |||
| 2 | trust | gerund | twins = twin not said here | a eagle's aid | time | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to aid=Recipient | |||
| 3 | meet | present | attempt | with the same fate; as twins's first trial | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fate=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | twins = twin | nom trial «act 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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