Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 46
A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succeeds, as in the former case.
Who acts: horse, bull calf · What happens: attempt, succeed, rescue · To what, where: rescue, former case
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, bull calf), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempt | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 geese | cc |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 geese | det |
| 5 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horse | conj |
| 6 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 7 attempt | advmod |
| 7 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempt | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeeds | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 calf | det |
| 12 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calf | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bull | punct |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeds | nsubj |
| 15 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 attempt | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 case | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 case | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 case | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 case | det |
| 20 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 case | amod |
| 21 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeds | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present | a horse and some geese | horse's rescue | vainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rescue=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | succeed | present | a bull calf | the former case | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rescue | horse | nom rescue «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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