Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 101
In Poggio's "Facetiae," the wife is doubly aggravating.
Who acts: wife · What happens: aggravate
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Facetiae | case |
| 2 | Poggio | Poggio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Facetiae | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Poggio | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Facetiae | punct |
| 5 | Facetiae | Facetiae | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aggravating | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 aggravating | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aggravating | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 aggravating | aux |
| 11 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 aggravating | advmod |
| 12 | aggravating | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Facetiae | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Facetiae | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | present · progressive | the wife | doubly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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