Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 19

The three widows die, but their mother, "an old witch," determines on revenge.

Who acts: three widows, mother · What happens: die, determine · To what, where: revenge

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three widows, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 widows	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 widows	nummod
3	widows	widow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determines	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 determines	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 determines	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 witch	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 witch	amod
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
16	determines	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 die	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 revenge	case
18	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 determines	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the three widows						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	determine	present	widows's mother			revenge			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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