Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 24
The wife has gone to the seigneur of the village and accused her husband of having found a treasure and kept it for his own use.
Who acts: wife, husband, widower · What happens: go, accuse, find, keep, use · To what, where: seigneur, husband, treasure
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 (wife, husband, widower), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 seigneur | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seigneur | det |
| 7 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seigneur | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 accused | cc |
| 12 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accused | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 found | aux |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 husband | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 treasure | det |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 accused | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 use | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 use | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 use | amod |
| 26 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | the wife | the seigneur of the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seigneur=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | accuse | past | the wife not said here | wife's husband | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund · perfect | wife's husband not said here | a treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | the wife not said here | treasure | for widower's own use | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | use | widower | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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