Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 70
The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching him.
Who acts: Tsar Maiden · What happens: pursue, not succeed, catch · To what, where: thief, fence
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar Maiden), 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 | 3 Maiden | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maiden | compound |
| 3 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pursues | nsubj |
| 4 | pursues | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thief | det |
| 6 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pursues | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 succeed | cc |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 succeed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 succeed | advmod |
| 11 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pursues | conj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 catching | mark |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 succeed | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 catching | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pursues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | present | the Tsar Maiden | the thief | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not succeed | present · do-support | the Tsar Maiden not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | the Tsar Maiden not said here | fence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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