Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 38

Next night the youth's mother went to the hut, but she succeeded no better than her husband had done.

Who acts: night mother, mother · What happens: go, succeed, do · To what, where: hut, husband

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 (night mother, mother), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 youth	case
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 succeeded	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 succeeded	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 succeeded	nsubj
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 better	advmod
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 succeeded	xcomp
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 done	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 better	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth's night mother		the hut		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	succeed	past	mother			good property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · perfect · passive		mother's husband			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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