Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 65

The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints, to place them in unpleasant positions, and to gloat over the sufferings which attend their death and embitter their ghostly existence.

Who acts: folk tales, sufferings, lands · What happens: delight, gird, gloat, attend, embitter, tell · To what, where: place, misers, sufferings, death, ghostly existence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk tales, sufferings, lands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tales	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 folk	punct
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 delight	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lands	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lands	det
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tales	nmod
8	delight	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 gird	mark
10	gird	gird	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 delight	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 misers	case
12	misers	miser	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gird	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skinflints	cc
14	skinflints	skinflint	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 misers	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 place	mark
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gird	obl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 place	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 positions	case
20	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 positions	amod
21	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 place	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gloat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gloat	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 gloat	mark
25	gloat	gloat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 delight	conj
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 sufferings	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sufferings	det
28	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gloat	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 attend	nsubj
30	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sufferings	acl:relcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 death	nmod:poss
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 attend	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 embitter	cc
34	embitter	embitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 attend	conj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 existence	nmod:poss
36	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 existence	amod
37	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 embitter	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 delight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	delight	present	the folk tales of all lands			tree rules
2	gird	to-infinitive	the folk tales of all lands not said here	place skinflints in unpleasant positions	misers and skinflints	tree rules
3	gloat	to-infinitive	the folk tales of all lands not said here		the sufferings	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	attend	present	the sufferings	sufferings's death		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Goal
5	embitter	present	the sufferings not said here	sufferings's ghostly existence		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent existence=Patient
6	tell		all lands			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
7	die		sufferings = suffering			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
8	exist		sufferings = suffering			nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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