Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 57
A certain woman ordered her husband (says the story) to make away with his daughter by a previous marriage.
Who acts: certain woman · What happens: order, say, make away · To what, where: husband, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (certain woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 marriage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 marriage | det |
| 20 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 marriage | amod |
| 21 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | a certain woman | woman's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make away | to-infinitive | with husband's daughter; by a previous marriage; away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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