Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 123
Now her stepmother hated Marya, and used to send her out, with nothing to eat but a dry crust, to tend a cow all day.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: hate, use, send out, eat, tend · To what, where: Marya, stepmother, cow
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hated | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 used | cc |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hated | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 send | mark |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 send | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 send | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nothing | case |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 send | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 crust | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crust | det |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crust | amod |
| 21 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tend | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tend | mark |
| 24 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 send | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cow | det |
| 26 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tend | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tend | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | stepmother's stepmother | Marya | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marya=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | use | participle | stepmother's stepmother not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | send out | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother not said here | stepmother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tend | to-infinitive | stepmother's stepmother not said here | a cow | day | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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