Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 13

The Sun's Sister would not listen to her, nor would she give him up.

Who acts: Sister · What happens: not listen, give up · To what, where: Sun, brother

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sister	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sun	case
4	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 listen	advmod
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 give	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 listen	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 give	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	the Sun's Sister		Sun				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme
2	give up	would	Sister		brother				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

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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