Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 39

A bad wife lived on the worst of terms with her husband, and never paid any attention to what he said.

Who acts: bad wife, Benfey · What happens: live, not pay, say · To what, where: worst terms, attention · 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 (bad wife, Benfey), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 terms	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 terms	det
7	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 terms	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 terms	case
9	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 husband	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terms	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paid	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 paid	advmod
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 attention	det
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 paid	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past	a bad wife		the worst terms with wife's husband	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on term=Location
2	not pay	past	a bad wife not said here	any attention		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	Benfey			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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