Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 30
Then he tried to let go, and couldn't; tug and worry as he might, it was no good.
Who acts: wolf, tar · What happens: try, let, go, not tug, worry, be
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, tar), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tug | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tug | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tug | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tug | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tug | punct |
| 12 | tug | tug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 worry | cc |
| 14 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tug | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 might | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 might | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 worry | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 good | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 good | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 good | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | wolf | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | wolf not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not tug | could | wolf not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | worry | infinitive | wolf not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | tar | good property | tree rules |
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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