Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 18

She persuades the murderer to show her the body of her dead love, and weeps over it bitterly.

Who acts: Bronevsky · What happens: persuade, show, weep, love · To what, where: murderer, body, Bronevsky, love

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bronevsky), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuades	nsubj
2	persuades	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 murderer	det
4	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 persuades	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuades	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 show	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 love	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 love	nmod:poss
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 love	amod
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 body	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weeps	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 weeps	cc
16	weeps	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 persuades	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 weeps	obl
19	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	16 weeps	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 persuades	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	present	Bronevsky	the murderer				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Bronevsky not said here	the body of Bronevsky's dead love	Bronevsky			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient body=Topic
3	weep	present	Bronevsky not said here			love	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	love		Bronevsky					nom love «feeling 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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