Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 114

The parson held on and held on to the pillar with all his might, but it was of no use.

Who acts: Devil · What happens: hold on, be · To what, where: parson

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 parson	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 held	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 held	cc
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 held	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 held	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 pillar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pillar	det
10	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obl
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 might	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 might	nmod:poss
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pillar	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 use	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 use	det
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parson	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 parson	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold on	participle		the parson but no use not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold on	participle			to the pillar	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Devil		of no use	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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