Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 100

185), the husband cuts out the tongue of his wife, to prevent her from repeating that his meadow has been clipped, whereupon she makes a clipping sign with her fingers.

Who acts: 185, wife · What happens: cut out, prevent, repeat, clip, make · To what, where: tongue, wife, meadow, clipping sign

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (185, 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	185	185	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cuts	nsubj
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 185	punct
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cuts	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuts	nsubj
6	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 cuts	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tongue	det
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuts	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tongue	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 prevent	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 prevent	mark
15	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cuts	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 prevent	obj
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	18 repeating	mark
18	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 prevent	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 clipped	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 meadow	nmod:poss
21	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clipped	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 clipped	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 clipped	aux:pass
24	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 repeating	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
26	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	28 makes	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 prevent	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sign	det
30	clipping	clipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sign	compound
31	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 fingers	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fingers	nmod:poss
34	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sign	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut out	present	185	the tongue of husband's wife		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=Eventuality
2	prevent	to-infinitive	185 not said here	wife		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
3	repeat	gerund	185 not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	clip	present · perfect · passive		husband's meadow		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	make	present	wife	a clipping sign	with wife's fingers; whereupon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product

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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