Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 42

Do what they would--and the wise men and the wise women did their utmost--it was of no avail.

Who acts: wise men, Tsarivna · What happens: do, be · To what, where: utmost

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise men, Tsarivna), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	aux
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 did	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 women	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 women	det
12	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 men	conj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 utmost	nmod:poss
16	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 did	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 avail	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 avail	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 avail	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 avail	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 avail	det
22	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the wise men and the wise women	tsardom's utmost					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utmost=Eventuality
2	is	past	Tsarivna					of no avail	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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