Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 148

But trying, in spite of the wolf's warning, to carry off the cage itself, an alarm is sounded, and he is taken prisoner.

Who acts: trying, wolf · What happens: try, carry off, sound, take, spite, warn · To what, where: spite, cage, alarm, king, warning

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 (trying, wolf), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 trying	cc
2	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 carry	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spite	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 spite	case
5	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trying	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 warning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warning	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wolf	case
10	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spite	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 carry	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cage	det
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obl
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 cage	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sounded	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 alarm	det
20	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sounded	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sounded	aux:pass
22	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 carry	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 taken	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 taken	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taken	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux:pass
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sounded	conj
28	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	gerund			spite of the wolf's warning	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	carry off	to-infinitive	trying	the cage cage		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sound	present · passive		a alarm		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	take	present · passive		king		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
5	spite			the wolf's warning		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	warn		the wolf			nom warning «communication 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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