Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 104

So as soon as her husband went back to the council (she was a bad sort; he wanted to give her a lesson) he told the elders what she had said.

Who acts: husband, woman, Boyar · What happens: go back, be, want, give, tell, say · To what, where: bad sort, lesson, woman, elders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, woman, Boyar), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 told	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soon	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 council	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 council	det
11	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 sort	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sort	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sort	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sort	det
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sort	amod
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lesson	det
25	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 soon	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 elders	det
30	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 told	iobj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 said	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	aux
34	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 told	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	woman's husband			to the council result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to council=Result
2	is a	past	woman	a bad sort			tree rules
3	want	past	Boyar				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Boyar not said here	a lesson	woman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Boyar		the elders	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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