Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 120
[273] Literally "Life disgusted them worse than a bitter radish."
Who acts: Life · What happens: disgust · To what, where: features
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 273 | punct |
| 2 | 273 | 273 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 273 | punct |
| 4 | Literally | literally | ADV | _ | 2 273 | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 disgusted | punct |
| 6 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 disgusted | nsubj |
| 7 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 273 | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disgusted | obj |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 disgusted | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 radish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 radish | det |
| 12 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 radish | amod |
| 13 | radish | radish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worse | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 273 | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 273 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgust in a quote | past | Life | features = feature | bad property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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