Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 41

The girl held her peace, and wept; she tried in every way to accommodate herself to her stepmother, and to be of service to her stepsisters.

Who acts: girl · What happens: hold, weep, try, accommodate, be, pacify · To what, where: peace, way, girl, stepmother

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 peace	nmod:poss
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wept	cc
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 accommodate	mark
16	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 accommodate	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stepmother	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stepmother	nmod:poss
20	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 accommodate	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 service	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 service	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	26 service	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 service	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 service	case
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 stepsisters	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stepsisters	nmod:poss
29	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 service	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the girl	girl's peace				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
2	weep	past	the girl not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	girl			every way		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	accommodate not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl	girl's stepmother			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to stepmother=Goal
5	is	to-infinitive					of service; to stepmother's stepsisters	tree rules
6	pacify		girl					nom peace «state 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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