Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 47
Mísha tried to lift it away, but in vain; so he returned to his parents and told them all he had gone through.
Who acts: Mísha · What happens: try, lift away, return, tell, go through · To what, where: stone, parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mísha), 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 | Mísha | Mísha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 lift | mark |
| 4 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lift | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 lift | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vain | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 vain | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lift | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 parents | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | ccomp |
| 25 | through | through | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Mísha | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lift away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mísha not said here | stone | away property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | Mísha | to Mísha's parents result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Mísha not said here | parents = parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go through | past · perfect | Mísha | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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