Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 154

From morning till night the peasant would struggle, like a fish trying to break through ice, but nothing came of it all.

Who acts: peasant, fish, nothing · What happens: struggle, try, break, come · To what, where: fish, ice

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 (peasant, fish, nothing), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 morning	case
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struggle	obl
3	till	till	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struggle	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 struggle	aux
8	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 fish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struggle	obj
13	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fish	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 break	mark
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 trying	xcomp
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 ice	case
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 break	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 struggle	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 came	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 struggle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	the peasant	a fish		morning		tree rules
2	try	gerund	a fish not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	a fish not said here		ice			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=Location
4	come	past	nothing				of ice	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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