Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 134
After a time the wife falls in love with the hunchback and conspires with him to kill her husband.
Who acts: wife · What happens: fall, conspire, kill · To what, where: love, husband
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | nsubj |
| 6 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hunchback | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunchback | det |
| 11 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 conspires | cc |
| 13 | conspires | conspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 falls | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 conspires | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 conspires | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the wife | love | time | with the hunchback | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||
| 2 | conspire | present | the wife not said here | with friend | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the wife not said here | wife's husband | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
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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