Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 84

The mare carried him off over hills and dales and ravines, and did all she could to try and throw her rider.

Who acts: mare · What happens: carry off, do, try, throw · To what, where: Tprru, hills, all, rider

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 (mare), 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	2 mare	det
2	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 hills	case
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dales	cc
9	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hills	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ravines	cc
11	ravines	ravine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hills	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 did	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 could	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 all	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 try	mark
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 did	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 throw	cc
21	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rider	nmod:poss
23	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throw	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry off	past	the mare	Tprru	hills and dales and ravines	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	past	the mare not said here	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	try	to-infinitive	the mare not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	throw	infinitive	the mare not said here	mare's rider		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=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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