Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 47
He was feeble, his wife was a scold, and her daughters were as obstinate as they were indolent.
Who acts: man, wife, daughters · What happens: be · To what, where: scold
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 (man, wife, daughters), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feeble | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feeble | cop |
| 3 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scold | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scold | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scold | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scold | det |
| 9 | scold | scold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeble | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 obstinate | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 obstinate | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 obstinate | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 obstinate | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 obstinate | advmod |
| 16 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feeble | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 indolent | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 indolent | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 indolent | cop |
| 20 | indolent | indolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 obstinate | csubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | feeble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | man's wife | a scold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl's daughters | obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | daughters = daughter | indolent property | tree rules |
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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