Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 48

Well, the old folks set to work to consider--the husband how he could get his daughters settled, the wife how she could get rid of the eldest one.

Who acts: old folks, husband, girl · What happens: set, work, consider, get, settle · To what, where: daughters, wife

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 (old folks, husband, girl), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 folks	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 folks	amod
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 consider	mark
10	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 work	xcomp
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 settled	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 husband	det
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 settled	nsubj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 get	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 husband	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughters	nmod:poss
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obj
20	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wife	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wife	det
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 settled	obl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 get	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wife	acl:relcl
28	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 get	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 one	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present	the old folks			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the old folks not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	consider	to-infinitive	the old folks not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	get	could	husband	husband's daughters		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
5	settle	past	the husband	the wife		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	could	girl		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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