Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 2

Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served, nothing came of it: all his labour was like spilt water, he got no good from it.

Who acts: youth, nothing, labour · What happens: go, do, serve, come, be, get · To what, where: whatever, good

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, nothing, labour), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 got	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whatever	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 whatever	cc
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 went	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 whatever	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 served	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 whomsoever	case
12	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 served	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 served	nsubj
14	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 served	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 water	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 labour	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 labour	nmod:poss
23	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 water	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	spilt	spilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 water	amod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 good	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 got	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 good	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	youth	whatever	wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	youth			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	serve	past	youth		with whomsoever	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with whomsoever=Theme
4	come	past	nothing		of whomsoever	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
5	is	past	youth's labour		like spilt water	tree rules
6	get	past	youth	no good		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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