Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 90
But he had a daughter by the first marriage, a young girl, and she found no favor in the eyes of her evil stepmother, who used to beat her, and consider how she could get her killed outright.
Who acts: husband, daughter, evil stepmother, stepmother · What happens: have, find, use, beat, consider, get · To what, where: daughter, favor, eyes, stepmother
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, daughter, evil stepmother, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 marriage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marriage | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 marriage | amod |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marriage | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 favor | det |
| 19 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stepmother | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stepmother | amod |
| 26 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 used | nsubj |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stepmother | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 beat | mark |
| 31 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 used | xcomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 beat | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 consider | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 consider | cc |
| 35 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 get | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 get | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 get | aux |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 consider | ccomp |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 get | obj |
| 41 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 get | xcomp |
| 42 | outright | outright | ADV | _ | 41 killed | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | husband | a daughter | by the first marriage and a young girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | daughter | no favor | the eyes of daughter's evil stepmother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Topic | |||
| 3 | use | past | daughter's evil stepmother | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | beat | to-infinitive | daughter's evil stepmother not said here | daughter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consider | infinitive | husband not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get | could | daughter | stepmother | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | kill | participle | stepmother not said here | outright property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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