Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 96

Presently comes a boy who fills two huge sacks with turnips, and vainly tries to carry them off.

Who acts: boy, vainly tries · What happens: come, fill, carry off · To what, where: boy, two huge sacks, turnips

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 (boy, vainly tries), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fills	nsubj
6	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sacks	nummod
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sacks	amod
9	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fills	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 turnips	case
11	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fills	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carry	cc
14	vainly	vainly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tries	amod
15	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 carry	mark
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 carry	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present		a boy	presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
2	fill	present	a boy	two huge sacks	with turnips	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with turnip=Instrument
3	carry off	to-infinitive	vainly tries	turnips = turnip		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/96/