Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 135
[60] It will be observed that the miser holds out against the pain which the scalded demon was unable to bear.
Who acts: miser, pain · What happens: observe, hold out, scald, be, bear · To what, where: name, pain
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 (miser, pain), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 60 | punct |
| 2 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 observed | parataxis |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 60 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 observed | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 observed | aux:pass |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 holds | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miser | det |
| 10 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holds | nsubj |
| 11 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 observed | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 holds | compound:prt |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 pain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pain | det |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holds | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 unable | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 demon | det |
| 18 | scalded | scald | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 demon | amod |
| 19 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 unable | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 unable | cop |
| 21 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pain | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bear | mark |
| 23 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 unable | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | future · passive | name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hold out | present | the miser | the pain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pain=Location | ||||
| 3 | scald | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the pain | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bear | to-infinitive | the pain not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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