Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 83
In the same way the elder and jealous wife, who had behaved with cruelty in the original stories to the offspring of her rival, often became turned, under Christian influences, into a stepmother who hated her husband's children by a previous marriage.
Who acts: elder, stepmother · What happens: behave, become, turn, hate · To what, where: original stories, stepmother, Christian influences, children
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, stepmother), 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 | _ | 4 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elder | det |
| 6 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wife | amod |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elder | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 behaved | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 behaved | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 behaved | aux |
| 13 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 elder | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cruelty | case |
| 15 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 behaved | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 stories | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stories | det |
| 18 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 behaved | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 offspring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 offspring | det |
| 22 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stories | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rival | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rival | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offspring | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 became | advmod |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 behaved | conj |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 influences | punct |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 influences | case |
| 32 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 influences | amod |
| 33 | influences | influence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 became | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stepmother | punct |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 stepmother | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 stepmother | det |
| 37 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 hated | nsubj |
| 39 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 stepmother | acl:relcl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 husband | nmod:poss |
| 41 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 children | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 husband | case |
| 43 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hated | obj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 marriage | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 marriage | det |
| 46 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 marriage | amod |
| 47 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hated | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | past · perfect | the elder and jealous wife | the original stories to the offspring of wife's rival | with cruelty | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | become | past | the elder and jealous wife not said here | a stepmother | Christian influences | often property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | turn | participle | the elder and jealous wife not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hate | past | a stepmother | stepmother's husband's children | by a previous marriage | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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