Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 98

[47] In the sixty-fourth story of Asbjoernsen's "Norske Folke-Eventyr," (Ny Samling, 1871) the dispute between the husband and wife is about a cornfield--as to whether it should be reaped or shorn--and she tumbles into a pool while she is making clipping gestures "under her husband's nose."

Who acts: dispute, wife · What happens: be, reap, shorn, tumble, make · To what, where: dispute, pool, clipping gestures, nose

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 (dispute, 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 47	punct
2	47	47	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 47	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fourth	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sixty	punct
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 story	amod
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 47	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	17 Eventyr	case
11	Asbjoernsen	Asbjoernsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Eventyr	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Asbjoernsen	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Norske	punct
14	Norske	Norske	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Eventyr	compound
15	Folke	Folke	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Norske	flat
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Eventyr	punct
17	Eventyr	Eventyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Eventyr	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Eventyr	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 Samling	punct
21	Ny	Ny	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Samling	compound
22	Samling	Samling	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Eventyr	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 1871	punct
24	1871	1871	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Samling	appos
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 Samling	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dispute	det
27	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cornfield	nsubj
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 husband	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 husband	det
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dispute	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wife	cc
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 husband	conj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cornfield	cop
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 cornfield	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cornfield	det
36	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	parataxis
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 reaped	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 reaped	mark
39	to	to	ADP	_	38 as	fixed
40	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	44 reaped	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 reaped	nsubj:pass
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 reaped	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 reaped	aux:pass
44	reaped	reap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cornfield	parataxis
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 shorn	cc
46	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 reaped	conj
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 tumbles	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 tumbles	cc
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 tumbles	nsubj
50	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cornfield	conj
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 pool	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 pool	det
53	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 tumbles	obl
54	while	while	SCONJ	_	57 making	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 making	nsubj
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 making	aux
57	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 tumbles	advcl
58	clipping	clipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 gestures	compound
59	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 making	obj
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	65 nose	punct
61	under	under	ADP	_	65 nose	case
62	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 husband	nmod:poss
63	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 nose	nmod:poss
64	's	's	PART	_	63 husband	case
65	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 making	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 cornfield	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 47	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dispute between the husband and wife			about a cornfield	tree rules
2	reap	should · passive		dispute			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	shorn	participle					tree rules
4	tumble	present	wife		a pool		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial_Location
5	make	present · progressive	wife	clipping gestures	wife's husband's nose		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gesture=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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