Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 18

One of the most popular simpleton-tales in the world is that of the fond parents who harrow their feelings by conjuring up the misfortunes which may possibly await their as yet unborn grandchildren.

Who acts: fond parents, misfortunes · What happens: be, harrow, conjure up, await · To what, where: feelings, misfortunes, horns

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fond parents, misfortunes), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 tales	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tales	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 popular	advmod
5	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
6	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 simpleton	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 parents	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 parents	mark
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 parents	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parents	det
16	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parents	amod
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 harrow	nsubj
19	harrow	harrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 parents	acl:relcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feelings	nmod:poss
21	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 harrow	obj
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 conjuring	mark
23	conjuring	conjure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 harrow	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 conjuring	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 misfortunes	det
26	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 conjuring	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 await	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 await	aux
29	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	30 await	advmod
30	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 misfortunes	acl:relcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 await	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 grandchildren	case
33	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 unborn	advmod
34	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grandchildren	amod
35	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 await	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			of the fond parents	tree rules
2	harrow	present	the fond parents	horns's feelings		tree rules
3	conjure up	gerund	the fond parents not said here	the misfortunes		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Result
4	await	may	the misfortunes	horns = horn	as unborn grandchildren; possibly property	tree rules

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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