Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 131

The stepmother's daughters tried to do so, but the birds almost pecked their eyes out, and would not let them gather the berries.

Who acts: daughters, birds · What happens: try, do, peck out, not let, gather · To what, where: eyes, birds, berries

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 (daughters, birds), 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 stepmother	det
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughters	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stepmother	case
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pecked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 pecked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pecked	nsubj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 pecked	advmod
14	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pecked	obj
17	out	out	ADV	_	14 pecked	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 let	advmod
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pecked	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 berries	det
26	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gather	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the stepmother's daughters			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stepmother's daughters not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peck out	past	the birds	birds's eyes	almost, out property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	not let	would	the birds not said here	birds = bird		tree rules
5	gather	infinitive	birds = bird not said here	the berries		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme

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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