Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 145

The elder brothers cannot keep awake, and see nothing; but the youngest of the three, Prince Ivan, though he fails to capture the bird, secures one of its tail-feathers.

Who acts: elder brothers, king · What happens: not keep, see, fail, not capture, secure · To what, where: nothing, bird, one

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brothers, king), 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	3 brothers	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brothers	amod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keep	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 see	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 youngest	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 youngest	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youngest	det
15	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 keep	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 three	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 three	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 youngest	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 three	punct
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ivan	compound
21	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 three	nmod:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fails	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 fails	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fails	nsubj
25	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 capture	mark
27	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fails	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bird	det
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 capture	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 secures	punct
31	secures	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fails	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 secures	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 feathers	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 feathers	nmod:poss
35	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feathers	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 tail	punct
37	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not keep	can	the elder brothers		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	infinitive	the elder brothers not said here	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	fail	present	king			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not capture	to-infinitive	king not said here	the bird		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
5	secure	present	king not said here	one of garden's tail feathers		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=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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