Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 39

There was nothing to be done; the peasant could not shake himself free from Woe.

Who acts: nothing, peasant · What happens: be, do, not shake · To what, where: peasant, Woe

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, peasant), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nothing	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 shake	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shake	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shake	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 shake	advmod
12	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 shake	obj
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shake	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 Woe	case
16	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shake	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	not shake	could	the peasant	peasant	Woe	free property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from woe=Trajectory

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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