Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 147

Of course the rich brother becomes envious and takes Need out of the swamp, whereupon she clings to him so tightly that he cannot get rid of her, and he becomes utterly ruined.

Who acts: mother, man · What happens: become, take, need, cling, not get, ruin · To what, where: swamp, man

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, man), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 brother	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becomes	obl
6	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 becomes	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 takes	cc
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 becomes	conj
10	Need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 takes	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 swamp	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 swamp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swamp	det
14	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clings	punct
16	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	18 clings	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clings	nsubj
18	clings	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 takes	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clings	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 tightly	advmod
22	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	18 clings	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 clings	advcl
28	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 get	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rid	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 becomes	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 becomes	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 becomes	nsubj
34	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 becomes	conj
35	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	36 ruined	advmod
36	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 becomes	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 becomes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	present				of the rich brother; envious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	take	present			the swamp		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	need	present					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	cling	present	mother	man		tightly, whereupon property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
5	not get	can	man			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	become	present	man				tree rules
7	ruin	participle	man not said here			utterly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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