Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 58

He tried to get up as high as his brothers, but the thin boughs broke beneath him, so he had to be content with staying in the lower part of the tree on the thicker boughs; so there he sat, hugging the millstone in his arms.

Who acts: Ivan, thin boughs · What happens: try, get up, break, have, be, stay · To what, where: lower part, millstone, arms

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 (Ivan, thin boughs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 high	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broke	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 broke	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boughs	det
14	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boughs	amod
15	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 broke	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broke	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 content	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 content	cop
25	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 had	xcomp
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 staying	mark
27	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 content	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 part	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 part	det
30	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 part	amod
31	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 staying	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 tree	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tree	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 part	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 boughs	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boughs	det
37	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 boughs	amod
38	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 staying	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 there	advmod
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 sat	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sat	nsubj
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hugging	punct
45	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 sat	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 millstone	det
47	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hugging	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 arms	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 arms	nmod:poss
50	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 hugging	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	Ivan				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			high property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	break	past	the thin boughs			beneath Ivan	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location
4	have	past	Ivan				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			content property	tree rules
6	stay	gerund	Ivan not said here		the lower part of the tree	on the thicker boughs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location
7	sit	past	Ivan		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hug	gerund	Ivan not said here	the millstone	Ivan's arms		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millstone=Co-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: «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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