Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 144

[192] Equivalent to saying "she liked to wash her dirty linen at home."

Who acts: mode · What happens: say, like, wash · To what, where: dirty linen, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mode), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 Equivalent	punct
2	192	192	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Equivalent	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 192	punct
4	Equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 saying	mark
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Equivalent	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 liked	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wash	mark
11	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 liked	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 linen	nmod:poss
13	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 linen	amod
14	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wash	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wash	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Equivalent	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Equivalent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	past	mode			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wash not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	mode not said here	mode's dirty linen	home	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient

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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