Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 16

In a Tula variant[328] the wicked wife, who has set her confiding husband to tend her pigs, is killed by the hero.

Who acts: hero · What happens: set, confide, tend, kill · To what, where: wicked wife, husband, pigs, Tula variant

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 variant	det
3	Tula	Tula	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 variant	compound
4	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	obl
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 328	punct
6	328	328	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 variant	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 328	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 variant	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 set	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wife	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	obj
16	confiding	confide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 set	advcl
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confiding	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tend	mark
19	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 confiding	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pigs	nmod:poss
21	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tend	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 variant	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 hero	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hero	det
27	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set	present · perfect · passive		the wicked wife		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination
2	confide speech: other	gerund		husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
3	tend	to-infinitive		wife's pigs		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme
4	kill	present · passive	the hero		a Tula variant	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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