Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 116

After the departure of his visitors, the Smith tries a similar experiment on his mother-in-law, but quite unsuccessfully.

Who acts: Smith, visitors · What happens: try, depart · To what, where: similar experiment

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, visitors), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 departure	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 departure	det
3	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tries	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 visitors	nmod:poss
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 departure	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 departure	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Smith	det
9	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tries	nsubj
10	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 experiment	det
12	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 experiment	amod
13	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tries	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 experiment	nmod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 law	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 in	punct
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mother	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unsuccessfully	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 unsuccessfully	cc
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 unsuccessfully	advmod
24	unsuccessfully	unsuccessfully	ADV	_	10 tries	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	the Smith	a similar experiment			after the departure of man's visitors	on man's mother in law; unsuccessfully property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experiment=Eventuality
2	depart		man's visitors						nom departure «act intransitive»: of=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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