Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 106

But neither knife nor axe could penetrate its hide, so they tried to consume it with fire.

Who acts: knife, ministers · What happens: penetrate, try, consume · To what, where: hide

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knife, ministers), 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	_	7 penetrate	cc
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 penetrate	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 axe	cc
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 penetrate	aux
7	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hide	nmod:poss
9	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 penetrate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 tried	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 penetrate	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 consume	mark
15	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 consume	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 fire	case
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consume	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 penetrate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	penetrate	could	neither knife nor axe	knife's hide		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
2	try	past	ministers = minister			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	consume not said to happen	to-infinitive	ministers = minister not said here	hide	with fire	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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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