Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 124
Vikhor tried to shake him off, flying first about the house and then out of it, but all in vain.
Who acts: Vikhor · What happens: try, shake off, fly · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3224): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 shake | mark |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shake | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 shake | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flying | punct |
| 8 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shake | advcl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 flying | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flying | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 it | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 it | advmod |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 out | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 house | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vain | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 vain | cc |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 vain | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 vain | case |
| 22 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Vikhor | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | shake off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vikhor not said here | Prince | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | Vikhor not said here | about the house; first property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about house=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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