Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 17
She must needs be both a good housekeeper and an experienced mother.
Who acts: widow, good housekeeper · What happens: need, be · To what, where: good housekeeper
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 (widow, good housekeeper), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | aux |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | xcomp |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 housekeeper | cc:preconj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 housekeeper | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 housekeeper | amod |
| 8 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mother | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 11 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mother | amod |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 housekeeper | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | must | widow | a good housekeeper and a experienced mother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be not said to happen | infinitive | a good housekeeper and a experienced mother not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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