Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 64

The Desna set off at full speed, but in spite of all her attempts, the Dnieper always kept ahead of her until he fell into the sea, where the Desna was obliged to join him.

Who acts: Desna, Dnieper, girl · What happens: set off, keep, fall, oblige, join, spite · To what, where: full speed, spite, sea, Desna, attempts

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desna, Dnieper, girl), 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 Desna	det
2	Desna	Desna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 speed	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speed	amod
7	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 spite	case
11	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 attempts	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 attempts	det:predet
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 attempts	nmod:poss
15	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spite	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spite	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Dnieper	det
18	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 kept	advmod
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
21	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	20 kept	advmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	obl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 fell	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 obliged	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 obliged	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Desna	det
33	Desna	Desna	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 obliged	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 obliged	aux:pass
35	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fell	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 join	mark
37	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 obliged	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 join	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set off	past	the Desna		full speed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	the Dnieper		spite of girl's attempts	of girl; ahead, always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location
3	fall	past	Desna			into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
4	oblige	past · passive		the Desna			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	join	to-infinitive		Desna			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	spite			girl's attempts			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	attempt		girl				nom attempt «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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