Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 90
But the Bad Wife sits to this day in the pit--in Tartarus.
Who acts: Bad Wife · What happens: sit · To what, where: pit
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sits | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wife | det |
| 3 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Wife | amod |
| 4 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pit | det |
| 11 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tartarus | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Tartarus | case |
| 14 | Tartarus | Tartarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the Bad Wife | the pit | day | in Tartarus | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pit=Location |
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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