Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 122

She went round the whole village; not a soul would grant her request.

Who acts: neighbor, soul · What happens: go, not grant, request · To what, where: whole village, request

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, soul), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grant	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grant	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 soul	det
10	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grant	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grant	aux
12	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 request	nmod:poss
14	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grant	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	neighbor		the whole village	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round village=Initial_Location
2	not grant	would	a soul	neighbor's request		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
3	request		neighbor			nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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