Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 25
But as none are forthcoming, he waxes wroth, and kills her.
Who acts: none, guest · What happens: be, wax, kill · To what, where: Frost
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 (none, guest), 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 | _ | 8 waxes | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 forthcoming | mark |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 forthcoming | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forthcoming | cop |
| 5 | forthcoming | forthcoming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waxes | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forthcoming | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waxes | nsubj |
| 8 | waxes | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waxes | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kills | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kills | cc |
| 12 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 waxes | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kills | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waxes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | none | forthcoming property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wax | present | guest | wroth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | present | guest not said here | Frost | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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