Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 35
But some lazy harvest-women having cursed "God's corn," the Lord waxed wroth and began to strip the ears from the stem.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: curse, wax, begin, strip · To what, where: lazy harvest women, ears, stem
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 | _ | 8 cursed | cc |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 women | det |
| 3 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 4 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 women | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 harvest | punct |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cursed | aux |
| 8 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 corn | punct |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 corn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 God | case |
| 12 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cursed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waxed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 waxed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lord | det |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 waxed | nsubj |
| 17 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cursed | conj |
| 18 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 waxed | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 waxed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 strip | mark |
| 22 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ears | det |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 strip | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 stem | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stem | det |
| 27 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strip | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | gerund · perfect · passive | some lazy harvest women | God's corn obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wax | past | the Lord | wroth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Lord not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | strip | to-infinitive | the Lord not said here | the ears | the stem | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ear=Theme from stem=Source |
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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