Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 90

Him also the Yaga attempts to destroy, but he feigns ignorance, and persuades her to show him how to tie knots and to blow.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: attempt, destroy, feign, persuade, show, tie · To what, where: ignorance, horse, Ivan, knots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 attempts	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	5 attempts	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Yaga	det
4	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attempts	nsubj
5	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 destroy	mark
7	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attempts	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feigns	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 feigns	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feigns	nsubj
11	feigns	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 attempts	conj
12	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feigns	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 persuades	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 persuades	cc
15	persuades	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 attempts	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 persuades	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 persuades	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 show	iobj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 tie	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tie	mark
22	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 show	ccomp
23	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tie	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 blow	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 blow	mark
26	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tie	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 attempts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	attempt	present	Ivan			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	feign	present	Ivan	ignorance		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ignorance=Patient
4	persuade	present	Ivan not said here	horse		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	show	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here		Ivan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	tie	to-infinitive		knots		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
7	blow	to-infinitive				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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