Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 126
I tried speaking him fair, but he jeered at me.
Who acts: I, horse · What happens: try, speak, jeer · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horse), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 speaking | obj |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speaking | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jeered | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 jeered | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 jeered | nsubj |
| 9 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 jeered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | horse | fair property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | jeer | past | horse | at me | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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