Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 115

But whatever slanders she might invent, Prince Ivan never would allow himself to be influenced by what she said, but always felt sorry for his tutor.

Who acts: whatever, difficulty · What happens: slander, invent, not allow, influence, say, feel · To what, where: Prince · 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 (whatever, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 slanders	cc
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 slanders	nsubj
3	slanders	slander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 invent	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 invent	aux
6	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slanders	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 invent	obj
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prince	flat
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 allow	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 allow	aux
12	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 invent	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 allow	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 influenced	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 influenced	aux:pass
16	influenced	influence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 allow	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 influenced	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 felt	advmod
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slanders	conj
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 tutor	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tutor	nmod:poss
28	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slanders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slander	present	whatever				tree rules
2	invent	might	difficulty	Prince			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Result
3	not allow	would	difficulty not said here		Prince		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	influence	to-infinitive · passive	difficulty not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	say speech: assert	past	difficulty				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	feel	past	whatever not said here			for Prince's tutor; always, sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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