Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 54

"Folks say there's no getting hold of him the way we tried;[354] we must entice him by cunning, and the best way of all will be to promise him a red shirt, and a red caftan, and red boots."

Who acts: Folks, getting hold, we, 354, best way · What happens: say, be, get, try, entice, hold · To what, where: way, FOOL · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Folks, getting hold, we, 354), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	Folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 hold	det
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hold	amod
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 's	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 's	obl:unmarked
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 way	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 entice	punct
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 354	punct
17	354	354	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 entice	nsubj
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 354	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 entice	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 entice	aux
21	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entice	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 cunning	case
24	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entice	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 promise	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 promise	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 promise	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 way	nmod
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 promise	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 promise	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 promise	mark
35	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entice	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 promise	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 shirt	det
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 shirt	amod
39	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 promise	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 caftan	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 caftan	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 caftan	det
43	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 caftan	amod
44	caftan	caftan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entice	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 boots	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 boots	cc
47	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 boots	amod
48	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 caftan	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Folks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	no getting hold of FOOL	the way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get in a quote	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	try in a quote	past	we	the way not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
5	entice in a quote	must	354	FOOL			by cunning	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	future	the best way of all		FOOL		promise property	tree rules
7	hold in a quote			FOOL				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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