Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 117

In the corresponding Norse tale of "The Master-Smith," (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 21, Dasent, No. 16) an old beggar-woman is the victim of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment.

Who acts: old beggar woman, Master Smith, Smith · What happens: correspond, be, tell, experiment · To what, where: victim, corresponding Norse tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (old beggar woman, Master Smith, Smith), 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	_	5 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
3	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tale	amod
4	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 victim	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 Smith	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Smith	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Smith	det
9	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Smith	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Smith	punct
11	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tale	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Smith	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Smith	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 Asbjoernsen	punct
15	Asbjoernsen	Asbjoernsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Smith	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Moe	cc
17	Moe	Moe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Asbjoernsen	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 21	punct
19	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	20 21	nmod:unmarked
20	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 Asbjoernsen	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Dasent	punct
22	Dasent	Dasent	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Asbjoernsen	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 No.	punct
24	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	15 Asbjoernsen	conj
25	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 No.	flat
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 Asbjoernsen	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
29	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 woman	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 beggar	punct
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 victim	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 victim	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 victim	det
34	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 experiment	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Smith	det
37	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 experiment	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Smith	case
39	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 experiment	amod
40	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 victim	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 victim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	correspond	gerund					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a old beggar woman	the victim	the corresponding Norse tale of the Master Smith	of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment	tree rules
3	tell		the Master Smith				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
4	experiment		the Smith				nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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