Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 41
Having moved into the new abode, the merchant's wife kept sending her hated Vasilissa into the forest on one pretence or another.
Who acts: wife, sending · What happens: have, move, keep, send, hate · To what, where: new abode, wife, Vasilissa, forest
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 (wife, sending), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kept | advcl |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 abode | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 abode | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 abode | amod |
| 6 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hated | csubj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sending | obj |
| 15 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | advcl |
| 16 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hated | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hated | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pretence | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pretence | nummod |
| 22 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forest | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 another | cc |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 pretence | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the merchant's wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | participle | the merchant's wife not said here | the new abode | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into abode=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | the merchant's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | gerund | wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hate | past | sending | Vasilissa | the forest on one pretence | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vasilissa=Stimulus |
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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