Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 101
But it was all no use; he couldn't help being miserable.
Who acts: life, prince · What happens: be, not help · To what, where: use
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, prince), 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 use | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 use | advmod |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | conj |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 miserable | cop |
| 13 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 help | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | life | no use | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not help | could | prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | gerund | prince not said here | miserable property | tree rules |
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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