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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 22

[49] A common story again is that of the husband who, having confided a secret to his wife which he justly fears she will reveal, throws discredit on her evidence about things in general by making her believe various absurd stories which she hastens to repeat.

Who acts: widower, wife, 49, various absurd stories · What happens: confide, fear, reveal, be, make, believe · To what, where: husband, wife, evidence, various absurd stories · 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 (widower, wife, 49, various absurd stories), 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

punctnsubjpunctdetamodnsubjadvmodcopmarkcasedetoblnsubj:passpunctauxacl:relcldetobjcasenmod:possnmodobjnsubjadvmodacl:relclnsubjauxccomppunctobjcasenmod:possoblcasenmodcaseamodmarkadvclobjxcompamodamodobjnsubjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctroot[PUNCT49NUM]PUNCTADETcommonADJstoryNOUNagainADVisAUXthatSCONJofADPtheDEThusbandNOUNwhoPRON,PUNCThavingAUXconfidedVERBaDETsecretNOUNtoADPhisPRONwifeNOUNwhichPRONhePRONjustlyADVfearsVERBshePRONwillAUXrevealVERB,PUNCTthrowsVERBdiscreditNOUNonADPherPRONevidenceNOUNaboutADPthingsNOUNinADPgeneralADJbySCONJmakingVERBherPRONbelieveVERBvariousADJabsurdADJstoriesNOUNwhichPRONshePRONhastensVERBtoPARTrepeatVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 49punct
24949NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card30 throwsnsubj
3]]PUNCT_2 49punct
4AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 storydet
5commoncommonADJDegree=Pos6 storyamod
6storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing30 throwsnsubj
7againagainADV_6 storyadvmod
8isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 throwscop
9thatthatSCONJ_30 throwsmark
10ofofADP_12 husbandcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 husbanddet
12husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing30 throwsobl
13whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 confidednsubj:pass
14,,PUNCT_16 confidedpunct
15havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 confidedaux
16confidedconfideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 husbandacl:relcl
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 secretdet
18secretsecretNOUNNumber=Sing16 confidedobj
19totoADP_21 wifecase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 wifenmod:poss
21wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing18 secretnmod
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 fearsobj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 fearsnsubj
24justlyjustlyADV_25 fearsadvmod
25fearsfearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 wifeacl:relcl
26sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 revealnsubj
27willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin28 revealaux
28revealrevealVERBVerbForm=Inf25 fearsccomp
29,,PUNCT_12 husbandpunct
30throwsthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
31discreditdiscreditNOUNNumber=Sing30 throwsobj
32ononADP_34 evidencecase
33herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 evidencenmod:poss
34evidenceevidenceNOUNNumber=Sing30 throwsobl
35aboutaboutADP_36 thingscase
36thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur34 evidencenmod
37ininADP_38 generalcase
38generalgeneralADJDegree=Pos36 thingsamod
39bybySCONJ_40 makingmark
40makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part38 generaladvcl
41hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 makingobj
42believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf40 makingxcomp
43variousvariousADJDegree=Pos45 storiesamod
44absurdabsurdADJDegree=Pos45 storiesamod
45storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur42 believeobj
46whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel48 hastensnsubj
47sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 hastensnsubj
48hastenshastenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin45 storiesacl:relcl
49totoPART_50 repeatmark
50repeatrepeatVERBVerbForm=Inf48 hastensxcomp
51..PUNCT_30 throwspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1confide speech: othergerund · perfect · passivethe husbandtree rules
2fearpresentwidowerwidower's wifejustly propertytree rules
3revealfuturewifevn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4ispresent49wife's evidence about thingsof the husband; throw propertytree rules
5makegerund49 not said herewifetree rules
6believeinfinitivewife not said herevarious absurd storiesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
7hastenpresentvarious absurd storiestree rules
8repeatto-infinitivevarious absurd stories not said herevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9evidencewifeabout thingsnom evidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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