Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 52
The jealous hatred of a stepmother, who exposes her stepdaughter to some great peril, has been made the theme of countless tales.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: expose, make · To what, where: stepdaughter, great peril, jealous hatred
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 (stepmother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hatred | det |
| 2 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hatred | amod |
| 3 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stepmother | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stepmother | det |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hatred | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exposes | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 exposes | nsubj |
| 9 | exposes | expose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stepmother | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exposes | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 peril | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 peril | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 peril | amod |
| 15 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exposes | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hatred | punct |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 theme | det |
| 21 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tales | case |
| 23 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tales | amod |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 theme | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expose | present | a stepmother | stepmother's stepdaughter | some great peril | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Theme to peril=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | the jealous hatred of a stepmother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary theme=Product |
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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