Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 62
A bad wife has come, and absolutely devoured us all, pinching us, and biting us--we're utterly worn out with it.
Who acts: bad wife · What happens: come, devour, pinch, bite, wear out · To what, where: us, we
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), 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 | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 devoured | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 devoured | cc |
| 8 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 9 devoured | advmod |
| 9 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 devoured | iobj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pinching | punct |
| 13 | pinching | pinch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 devoured | advcl |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pinching | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 worn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 worn | cc |
| 17 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 worn | advcl |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 biting | obj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 biting | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 worn | nsubj |
| 21 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worn | aux:pass |
| 22 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 23 worn | advmod |
| 23 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 come | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 worn | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 worn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | a bad wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | devour | participle | a bad wife not said here | us | absolutely property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 3 | pinch | gerund | a bad wife not said here | us | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bite | gerund | us | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wear out | present · passive | we | with world; utterly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
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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