Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 107

Twice his magic horse tries in vain to surmount it, but the third time it succeeds, and the youth carries off the princess, who ultimately becomes his wife.

Who acts: cave, youth, princess, brother · What happens: surmount, succeed, carry off, become, try · To what, where: cave, princess, wife

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (cave, youth, princess, brother), 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	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 vain	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tries	nmod:poss
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tries	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tries	compound
5	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vain	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 vain	case
7	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 surmount	mark
9	surmount	surmount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 vain	csubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 surmount	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 succeeds	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 succeeds	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 succeeds	obl:unmarked
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 succeeds	nsubj
17	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 vain	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carries	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carries	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carries	nsubj
22	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 succeeds	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 princess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carries	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 becomes	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 becomes	nsubj
28	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	29 becomes	advmod
29	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 princess	acl:relcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 becomes	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	surmount	to-infinitive		cave			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	succeed	present	cave		time		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry off	present	the youth	the princess			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	become	present	the princess	brother's wife		ultimately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	try		brother				nom try «act 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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