Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 13
After his wife's death, the merchant mourned for her a befitting time, and then began to consider about marrying again.
Who acts: merchant, wife · What happens: mourn, befit, begin, consider, marry, die
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 wife | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mourned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 death | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mourned | nsubj |
| 9 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mourned | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mourned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 began | advmod |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mourned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 consider | mark |
| 20 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 22 marrying | mark |
| 22 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 consider | advcl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 marrying | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the merchant | after VASILISSA's wife's death; time | for wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for she=Attribute | |||
| 2 | befit | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the merchant not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | consider | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | marry | gerund | the merchant not said here | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | die | VASILISSA's wife | nom death «event 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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