Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 44

Her act generally proves to be to her advantage, as well as to his, but not always.

Who acts: act, wife · What happens: prove, be, act

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (act, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 act	nmod:poss
2	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proves	nsubj
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	4 proves	advmod
4	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 advantage	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 advantage	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 advantage	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 advantage	nmod:poss
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proves	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 his	punct
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 his	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	as	as	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
14	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 proves	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 always	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 always	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 always	advmod
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 proves	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	prove	present	wife's act	always, generally property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	wife's act not said here	to wife's advantage	tree rules
3	act		wife		nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=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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