Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 157

But in spite of that, it never forgot how its master had offended it.

Who acts: work · What happens: not forget, offend, spite · To what, where: spite, master, that

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (work), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 forgot	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forgot	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spite	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spite	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgot	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 forgot	advmod
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 offended	advmod
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 offended	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 offended	aux
14	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 forgot	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offended	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not forget	past	work		spite of that	tree rules
2	offend	past · perfect · passive		work's master		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result
3	spite			that		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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