Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 42

But they, taking pattern by their mother, were always insulting Marfa, quarrelling with her, and making her cry: that was even a pleasure to them!

Who acts: stepsisters, that, Marfa · What happens: take, be, quarrell, make, cry · To what, where: pattern, insulting Marfa, cry, pleasure, stepsisters

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 (stepsisters, that, Marfa), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 taking	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taking	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
4	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Marfa	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 Marfa	advmod
12	insulting	insulting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Marfa	amod
13	Marfa	Marfa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 quarrelling	punct
15	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taking	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 quarrelling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 making	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 making	cc
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taking	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cry	nmod:poss
22	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 pleasure	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 pleasure	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pleasure	cop
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 pleasure	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pleasure	det
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pleasure	nmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	stepsisters = stepsister	pattern		by stepsisters's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	is a	past		insulting Marfa		always property	tree rules
3	quarrell	gerund	stepsisters = stepsister not said here			with Marfa	tree rules
4	make	gerund	stepsisters = stepsister not said here	Marfa's cry			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cry=Product
5	is a	past	that	a pleasure	stepsisters = stepsister		tree rules
6	cry		Marfa				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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