Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 28

They ran to and fro, they searched everywhere, but they had to go back empty handed.

Who acts: instructions · What happens: run, fro, search, have, go back, hand

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instructions), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 ran	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fro	cc
5	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 searched	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 searched	nsubj
8	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 searched	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	xcomp
18	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 go	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	past	instructions = instruction		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	instructions = instruction not said here		tree rules
3	search	past	instructions = instruction	everywhere property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	instructions = instruction		tree rules
5	go back	to-infinitive	instructions = instruction not said here	empty property	tree rules
6	hand	participle	instructions = instruction not said here		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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