Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 32

[51] Thereupon her husband determined to remedy the short-comings of her early education, and "whenever she showed herself capricious, or took to squalling, he immediately had her swaddled and placed in a _liulka_, and began swinging her to and fro."

Who acts: husband, living, man, early education · What happens: determine, remedy, show, take, squall, have · To what, where: 51, short comings, living

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, living, man, early education), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 51	punct
2	51	51	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 determined	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 51	punct
4	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	7 determined	advmod
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 determined	nsubj
7	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remedy	mark
9	remedy	remedy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 determined	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 comings	det
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 comings	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
13	comings	coming	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remedy	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 education	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 education	nmod:poss
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 education	amod
17	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comings	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 showed	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
21	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 showed	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	conj
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 showed	obj
25	capricious	capricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 showed	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	conj
29	to	to	SCONJ	_	30 squalling	mark
30	squalling	squall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 took	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
33	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	34 had	advmod
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 had	obj
36	swaddled	swaddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 her	acl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 placed	cc
38	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 swaddled	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 liulka	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 liulka	det
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 liulka	punct
42	liulka	liulka	X	Foreign=Yes	36 swaddled	obl:agent
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 liulka	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 began	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 began	cc
46	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 liulka	parataxis
47	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 began	xcomp
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 swinging	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 fro	case
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 fro	cc
51	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 swinging	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 determined	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	past	living's husband	51	thereupon property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remedy	to-infinitive	living's husband not said here	the short comings of living's early education		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coming=Patient
3	show in a quote	past	living	living	capricious, whenever property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient
4	take in a quote	past	living's husband not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	squall speech: other in a quote	gerund	living's husband not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have in a quote	past	man	living	immediately property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient
7	swaddle in a quote	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	place in a quote	participle				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
9	begin in a quote	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	swing in a quote	gerund		living		tree rules
11	fro in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
12	come		living's early education			nom coming «act intransitive»: of=agent
13	educate		living			nom education «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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