Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 21

In vain does its mistress throw it a cake, and order it to modify its remarks.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: throw, order, modify, remark · To what, where: vain, mistress, remarks

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 (mistress), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	aux
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mistress	nmod:poss
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	nsubj
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 throw	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 order	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 order	cc
12	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 throw	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 order	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 modify	mark
15	modify	modify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 order	xcomp
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 remarks	nmod:poss
17	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 modify	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	throw	present · do-support	vain's mistress	vain		vain	tree rules
2	order	infinitive	vain's mistress not said here		mistress		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	modify not said to happen	to-infinitive	vain's mistress not said here	mistress's remarks			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent remark=Patient
4	remark		mistress				nom remark «communication transitive»: 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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