Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 4

So he set to work even more obstinately: at night he would not sleep and by day he would not eat.

Who acts: money · What happens: set, work, not sleep, not eat

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 obstinately	advmod
8	obstinately	obstinately	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 sleep	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sleep	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sleep	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sleep	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sleep	advmod
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 day	case
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 eat	advmod
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 sleep	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	money			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	money not said here		obstinately property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not sleep	would	money	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not eat	would	money	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 4