Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 138
On that linen she will either strangle thee or scald[256] thee."
Who acts: crone · What happens: strangle, scald · To what, where: thee, linen, 256
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crone), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 linen | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 linen | det |
| 3 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strangle | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strangle | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 strangle | aux |
| 6 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 strangle | advmod |
| 7 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 strangle | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 scald | cc |
| 10 | scald | scald | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strangle | conj |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 256 | punct |
| 12 | 256 | 256 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 scald | obj |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 256 | punct |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 scald | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strangle | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 strangle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strangle | future | crone | thee | that linen | either property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||
| 2 | scald | infinitive | crone not said here | 256 | tree rules |
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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