Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 73
The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce.
Who acts: Voyvode · What happens: wax, demand · To what, where: divorce
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Voyvode), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Voyvode | det |
| 2 | Voyvode | Voyvode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waxed | nsubj |
| 3 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waxed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 demanded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 demanded | cc |
| 7 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waxed | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 divorce | det |
| 9 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wax | past | the Voyvode | wroth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | the Voyvode not said here | a divorce | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme divorce=Precondition |
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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