Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 14

There is the good old story, for instance, of the dispute between a husband and wife as to whether a certain rope has been cut with a knife or with scissors, resulting in the murder of the scissors-upholding wife, who is pitched into the river by her knife-advocating husband; but not before she has, in her very death agony, testified to her belief in the scissors hypothesis by a movement of her fingers above the surface of the stream.

Who acts: good old story, dispute, advocating husband, wife · What happens: be, cut, result, pitch, advocate, not have · To what, where: certain rope, murder, upholding wife, river, death agony, belief

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 (good old story, dispute, advocating husband, wife), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 instance	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 instance	case
9	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dispute	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dispute	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dispute	det
13	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 husband	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 husband	det
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dispute	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wife	cc
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 husband	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 cut	mark
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 cut	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rope	det
23	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rope	amod
24	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	nsubj:pass
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 cut	aux:pass
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dispute	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 knife	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 knife	det
30	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 scissors	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 scissors	case
33	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 knife	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 resulting	punct
35	resulting	result	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 cut	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 murder	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 murder	det
38	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 resulting	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 scissors	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 scissors	det
41	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 wife	obl
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 scissors	punct
43	upholding	upholding	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wife	compound
44	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 murder	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 pitched	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 pitched	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 pitched	aux:pass
48	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 wife	acl:relcl
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 river	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 river	det
51	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pitched	obl
52	by	by	ADP	_	57 husband	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 husband	nmod:poss
54	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 advocating	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 knife	punct
56	advocating	advocate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 husband	amod
57	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pitched	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 has	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 has	cc
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 has	advmod
61	before	before	SCONJ	_	63 has	mark
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 has	nsubj
63	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 agony	punct
65	in	in	ADP	_	69 agony	case
66	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 agony	nmod:poss
67	very	very	ADV	_	69 agony	advmod
68	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 agony	compound
69	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 has	parataxis
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 testified	punct
71	testified	testify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	69 agony	acl
72	to	to	ADP	_	74 belief	case
73	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 belief	nmod:poss
74	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 testified	obl
75	in	in	ADP	_	78 hypothesis	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 hypothesis	det
77	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	78 hypothesis	compound
78	hypothesis	hypothesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 belief	nmod
79	by	by	ADP	_	81 movement	case
80	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	81 movement	det
81	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 testified	obl
82	of	of	ADP	_	84 fingers	case
83	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	84 fingers	nmod:poss
84	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 movement	nmod
85	above	above	ADP	_	87 surface	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 surface	det
87	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 fingers	nmod
88	of	of	ADP	_	90 stream	case
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	90 stream	det
90	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 surface	nmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	the good old story			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	present · perfect · passive	the dispute between a husband and wife not said here	a certain rope			with a knife or scissors	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with knife=Instrument
3	result	gerund	the dispute between a husband and wife not said here			the murder upholding wife		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in murder=Location
4	pitch	present · passive	wife's advocating husband	upholding wife		the river		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into river=Destination
5	advocate	gerund						tree rules
6	not have	present	wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	testify speech: other	participle		wife's death agony not said here	wife's belief in the scissors hypothesis		by a movement of wife's fingers above the surface of the stream	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to belief=Recipient
8	believe		wife			the scissors hypothesis		nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place
9	move			wife's fingers above the surface of the stream				nom movement «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 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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