Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 2

He pursued and pursued it, but though he caught it up, he couldn't catch it, for he had no arms.

Who acts: man · What happens: pursue, catch up, not catch, have · To what, where: hare, arms

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 pursued	nsubj
2	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pursued	cc
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pursued	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pursued	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 catch	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 catch	cc
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 caught	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 catch	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 caught	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 caught	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 catch	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 catch	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 catch	advmod
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pursued	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 catch	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 had	case
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	17 catch	advcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 arms	det
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pursue	past	man		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	pursue	past	man not said here	hare	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	catch up	past	man	hare	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not catch	could	man	hare	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	have	past	man	no arms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

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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