Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 44
Marvelling greatly at its size, he tried in vain to obtain from his followers some explanation thereof.
Who acts: King · What happens: try, obtain · To what, where: vain, followers
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 (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 | Marvelling | marvelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 size | nsubj |
| 2 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 size | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 size | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 size | nmod:poss |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 size | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tried | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 obtain | mark |
| 12 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 followers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 followers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 obtain | obl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 explanation | det |
| 17 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followers | nmod |
| 18 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 17 explanation | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 size | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | King | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | obtain not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's followers some explanation | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from follower=Source |
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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