Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 78

So he tries to carry his wife up the bean stalk, but grows faint and lets her fall; she is killed, and he calls in the Fox as Wailer.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: try, carry, grow, let, fall, kill · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 tries	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tries	nsubj
3	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 carry	mark
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tries	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	11 stalk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stalk	det
10	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stalk	compound
11	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 grows	cc
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tries	conj
15	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grows	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lets	cc
17	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lets	obj
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lets	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 killed	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 killed	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 killed	aux:pass
23	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tries	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 calls	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 calls	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 calls	nsubj
27	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tries	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 Fox	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Fox	det
30	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 calls	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 Wailer	case
32	Wailer	Wailer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 calls	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	present	man			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's wife	up the bean stalk	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3	grow	present	man not said here		faint property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	present	man not said here	wife		tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	wife not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kill	present · passive		wife		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	call	present	man		in the Fox; as Wailer	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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