Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 19

And the son tried and tried to drag his mother up, and caught hold of her head, and she cried out to him: “You savage dog!

Who acts: son, mother · What happens: try, drag up, catch, cry out, dog, hold · To what, where: mother, hold, son, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 tried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drag	mark
8	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drag	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	8 drag	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caught	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	parataxis
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 cried	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 dog	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 dog	punct
28	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 dog	nsubj
29	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dog	amod
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	try	past	the son			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	try	past	the son not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drag up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the son not said here	son's mother		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
4	catch	past		hold of mother's head		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	cry out speech: express	past	mother		son	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	dog in a quote		son			tree rules
7	hold			mother's head		nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: «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 20, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 19