Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 38
Even then her stepmother was never satisfied, but would grumble away at Marfa, exclaiming:--
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: not be, grumble away, exclaim · To what, where: Marfa
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 (stepmother), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grumble | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grumble | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grumble | aux |
| 11 | grumble | grumble | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 grumble | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Marfa | case |
| 14 | Marfa | Marfa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grumble | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exclaiming | punct |
| 16 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 grumble | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | girl's stepmother | then | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grumble away speech: other | would | Marfa | away property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how 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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