Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 35
The wife had no love for the eldest of the three, who was her stepdaughter, but was always scolding her.
Who acts: wife · What happens: have, be, scold · To what, where: love, stepdaughter, Frost
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 (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 love | det |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 eldest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eldest | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 had | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 three | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 three | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eldest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stepdaughter | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stepdaughter | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stepdaughter | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 three | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scolding | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 scolding | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 scolding | aux |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 scolding | advmod |
| 21 | scolding | scold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scolding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the wife | no love | for the eldest of the three and Frost's stepdaughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Frost's stepdaughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scold | past · progressive | the wife not said here | Frost | always property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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