Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 61

The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events, that only some one who could outdo him in cunning should get it.

Who acts: father, that, one · What happens: want, take away, one, outdo, get · To what, where: money, father, events

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 law	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 in	punct
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	nmod
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 take	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 or	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 events	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 events	det
19	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 get	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 one	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 outdo	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 outdo	aux
27	outdo	outdo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 outdo	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 cunning	case
30	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 outdo	obl
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 get	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	the father in law				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the father in law not said here	money		with father; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	one		that				tree rules
4	outdo	could	some one	father		in cunning	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in cunning=Attribute
5	get	should	some one	money	all events		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at event=Asset

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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