Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 26

The Evil one strove and strove, but nothing came of it, the izba still remained pitch dark.

Who acts: Evil one, nothing, izba · What happens: strive, come, remain · To what, where: izba, pitch dark

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Evil one, nothing, izba), 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 one	det
2	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strove	nsubj
4	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 strove	cc
6	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strove	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strove	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 izba	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 izba	det
15	izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 remained	advmod
17	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 izba	acl
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dark	compound
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remained	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strive	past	the Evil one				tree rules
2	strive	past	the Evil one not said here				tree rules
3	come	past	nothing	the izba		of window	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
4	remain	participle	the izba not said here	pitch dark	still		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dark=Attribute

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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