Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 63

Meanwhile she considered within herself how she could spin out the time and do away with the bridegroom, and she thought the best way would be to overwhelm him with tremendous tasks.

Who acts: Anna · What happens: consider, spin out, do away, think, be · 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 (Anna), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	3 considered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 considered	nsubj
3	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 herself	case
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 considered	obl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 spin	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spin	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 spin	aux
9	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 considered	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 spin	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spin	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spin	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 bridegroom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridegroom	det
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 overwhelm	obl:unmarked
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 overwhelm	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 overwhelm	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 overwhelm	mark
29	overwhelm	overwhelm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overwhelm	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 tasks	case
32	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tasks	amod
33	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 overwhelm	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past	Anna		within Anna; meanwhile property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	spin out	could	Anna	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	do away	infinitive	Anna not said here		with the bridegroom; away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	Anna			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	is	would			with tremendous tasks; the best way obl:unmarked; overwhelm property	tree rules

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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