Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 48
He looked at it for some time and considered, "Why should I live in torment with a bad wife? can't I put her into that pit? can't I teach her a good lesson?"
Who acts: proverb, thief · What happens: look, consider, live, not put, not teach · To what, where: torment, wife, pit, good lesson
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 (proverb, thief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 considered | cc |
| 9 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 live | advmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 considered | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 torment | case |
| 17 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wife | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wife | amod |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 23 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 put | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 pit | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 pit | det |
| 30 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 teach | punct |
| 32 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 teach | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 teach | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 teach | nsubj |
| 35 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 teach | obj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lesson | det |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lesson | amod |
| 39 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 teach | obj |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | proverb | time | at bush | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||
| 2 | consider | past | proverb not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | should | thief | torment | with a bad wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in torment=Location | |||
| 4 | not put in a quote | can | thief | wife | that pit | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 5 | not teach speech: other in a quote | can | thief | a good lesson | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=Topic |
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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