Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 2

You flattered yourself you were going to get riches, but your daughters were too stiff-necked.

Who acts: You · What happens: flatter, go, get, neck · To what, where: yourself, riches, daughters

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 flattered	nsubj
2	flattered	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flattered	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flattered	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 necked	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 necked	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughters	nmod:poss
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 necked	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 necked	aux:pass
15	too	too	ADV	_	18 necked	advmod
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 necked	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 stiff	punct
18	necked	neck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flattered	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	flatter	past	You	yourself	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	you		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	riches	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus
4	neck	past · passive		your daughters	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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