Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 25
The charge is true, but the wife is induced to talk such nonsense, and the husband complains so bitterly of her, that "the seigneur pitied the moujik for being so unfortunate, so he set him at liberty; and he had him divorced from his wife and married to another, a young and good-looking one.
Who acts: charge, husband, seigneur, widower · What happens: be, induce, talk, complain, pity, set · To what, where: wife, such nonsense, that, widower, liberty · 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 (charge, husband, seigneur, 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 charge | det |
| 2 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 induced | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 induced | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 induced | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 induced | aux:pass |
| 10 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 talk | mark |
| 12 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 induced | advcl |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nonsense | amod |
| 14 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 complains | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 complains | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 husband | det |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 complains | nsubj |
| 19 | complains | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 bitterly | advmod |
| 21 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 19 complains | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bitterly | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pitied | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 pitied | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 pitied | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 seigneur | det |
| 28 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pitied | nsubj |
| 29 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 complains | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moujik | det |
| 31 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pitied | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 unfortunate | case |
| 33 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 unfortunate | cop |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 unfortunate | advmod |
| 35 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 moujik | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 set | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 set | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | nsubj |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pitied | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 liberty | case |
| 42 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 had | cc |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 had | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 had | obj |
| 48 | divorced | divorce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 had | xcomp |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 wife | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 wife | nmod:poss |
| 51 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 divorced | obl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 married | cc |
| 53 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 divorced | conj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 another | case |
| 55 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 53 married | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 one | punct |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 63 one | det |
| 58 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 looking | amod |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 good | cc |
| 60 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 young | conj |
| 61 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 60 good | punct |
| 62 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 63 one | amod |
| 63 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | conj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the charge | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | induce | present · passive | the wife | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | such nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | |||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | present | the husband | bitterly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pity in a quote | past | the seigneur | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moujik=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | gerund | unfortunate property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | set in a quote | past | seigneur | widower | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at liberty=Destination | |||
| 8 | have in a quote | past | seigneur | widower | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | divorce in a quote | participle | widower not said here | from seigneur's wife | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wife=Co-Patient | ||||
| 10 | marry in a quote | participle | widower not said here | to another | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to another=Co-Patient | ||||
| 11 | look in a quote | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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