Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 135
For this purpose she boils a snake, intending to poison her husband with it.
Who acts: wife · What happens: boil, intend, poison · To what, where: snake, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boils | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boils | nsubj |
| 5 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boils | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 intending | punct |
| 9 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 boils | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 poison | mark |
| 11 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 intending | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poison | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 poison | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | wife | a snake | for this purpose | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent snake=Patient for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | wife not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | poison not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wife's husband | with snake | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent husband=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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