Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 177
Then, like a thunderstorm, she broke out against her husband, abusing him saying:
Who acts: woman · What happens: break out, abuse, say · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 broke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 thunderstorm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thunderstorm | det |
| 5 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thunderstorm | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 broke | compound:prt |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 abusing | punct |
| 14 | abusing | abuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 broke | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 abusing | obj |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 abusing | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | woman | then | like a thunderstorm; against woman's husband | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against husband=Location | |||
| 2 | abuse | gerund | woman not said here | husband | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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