Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 172

This one's wife was handsome; that one's was handsomer still.

Who acts: wife, one · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, one), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 one	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handsome	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handsome	cop
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 handsomer	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handsomer	nsubj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 handsomer	cop
12	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 handsome	conj
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 handsomer	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handsome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this one's wife					handsome property	tree rules
2	is	past	that one				still	handsome property	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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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