Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 70
When this takes place, she revenges herself by plagues of sore-eyes, whitlows and agnails.
Who acts: this, woman · What happens: take, revenge, plague · To what, where: place, woman, sore eyes
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 (this, woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 takes | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 revenges | advcl |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 revenges | nsubj |
| 7 | revenges | revenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 revenges | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 plagues | case |
| 10 | plagues | plague | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 revenges | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 12 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sore | punct |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 plagues | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whitlows | punct |
| 16 | whitlows | whitlow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eyes | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agnails | cc |
| 18 | agnails | agnail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eyes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 revenges | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | this | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | revenge | present | woman | woman | by plagues of sore eyes and whitlows and agnails | tree rules | |||
| 3 | plague | sore eyes and whitlows and agnails | nom plague «state transitive»: of=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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