Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 116

There was no help for it, so the Soldier took to his psalter and read and read.

Who acts: help, Soldier · What happens: be, take, read

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (help, Soldier), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 help	det
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Soldier	det
10	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 psalter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 psalter	nmod:poss
14	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 read	cc
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 read	cc
18	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 read	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no help for door	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the Soldier		to SOLDIER's psalter result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to psalter=Result
3	read	infinitive	the Soldier not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	infinitive	the Soldier not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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