Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 126

"I've trudged round to every house, but no one will give him his daughter."

Who acts: neighbor, one · What happens: trudge, give · To what, where: house, daughter

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, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 trudged	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 trudged	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trudged	aux
4	trudged	trudge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 trudged	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trudged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trudged	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trudged	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 trudged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trudge in a quote	present · perfect	neighbor			every house		round property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
2	give in a quote	future	no one		couple's daughter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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