Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 114

With the Prince, without the tutor, there'd be no difficulty in settling matters! she said to herself.

Who acts: difficulty · What happens: be, say · To what, where: difficulty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficulty), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 Prince	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 be	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tutor	punct
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 tutor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tutor	det
7	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Prince	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Prince	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 difficulty	det
13	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 matters	case
15	settling	settling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 matters	compound
16	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 difficulty	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 be	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 herself	case
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 said	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no difficulty in settling matters			there		with the Prince	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	difficulty		difficulty				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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