Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 65
At last he tried to speak, but choked, and fled in terror.
Who acts: Devil · What happens: try, speak, choke, flee · To what, where: last, terror · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Devil), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choked | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 choked | cc |
| 9 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fled | cc |
| 12 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 choked | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 terror | case |
| 14 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Devil | last | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Devil not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | choke | past | Devil not said here | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | flee | past | Devil not said here | terror | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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