Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 18

Well, the merchant married the widow, but he had deceived himself, for he did not find in her a kind mother for his Vasilissa.

Who acts: merchant, VASILISSA · What happens: marry, deceive, not find · To what, where: widow, VASILISSA, kind mother

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, VASILISSA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2079): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	nsubj
5	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 widow	det
7	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deceived	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 deceived	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 deceived	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 deceived	aux
12	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 married	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 deceived	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 find	advmod
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 deceived	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mother	det
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 Vasilissa	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Vasilissa	nmod:poss
27	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mother	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	past	the merchant	the widow		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Patient
2	deceive	past · perfect	VASILISSA	VASILISSA		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	not find	past · do-support	VASILISSA	a kind mother	in widow; for VASILISSA's Vasilissa	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mother=Theme for vasilissa=Beneficiary

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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