Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 80

Shat, contrary to his father's wishes, wanted to roam abroad, so he set out on his travels, but go whither he would, he could get received nowhere.

Who acts: Shat, father · What happens: want, roam, set out, travel, go, receive · To what, where: Shat

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 (Shat, father), 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	Shat	Shat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 contrary	punct
3	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shat	amod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 wishes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wishes	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contrary	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shat	punct
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 roam	mark
12	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	12 roam	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 set	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	nsubj
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wanted	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 set	compound:prt
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 travels	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 travels	nmod:poss
21	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 set	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	conj
25	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	32 received	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 would	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 received	aux
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 would	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 received	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 received	aux
31	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 received	aux:pass
32	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 go	advcl
33	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 received	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Shat			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	roam not said to happen	to-infinitive	Shat not said here		abroad property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set out	past	Shat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	travel	present	Shat not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	infinitive	Shat not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	receive	could · passive		Shat	nowhere, whither property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	wish		Shat's father			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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