Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 108

But when the Rishi saw his bride he was discontented, and when he heard that her elder and fairer sisters had all refused him, he pronounced a curse which made all ninety-nine of them humpbacks, and so destroyed their chance of marrying at all.

Who acts: Rishi, elder, curse, chance · What happens: see, discontent, hear, have, refuse, pronounce · To what, where: bride, Rishi, curse, nine humpbacks, chance, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rishi, elder, curse, chance), 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	_	5 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rishi	det
4	Rishi	Rishi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bride	nmod:poss
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 discontented	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discontented	aux:pass
10	discontented	discontent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bride	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 refused	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 elder	nmod:poss
18	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 refused	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sisters	cc
20	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sisters	amod
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 elder	conj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 elder	acl
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 refused	advmod
24	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 refused	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pronounced	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pronounced	nsubj
28	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 curse	det
30	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pronounced	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 curse	acl:relcl
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 humpbacks	det
34	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 nine	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ninety	punct
36	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 humpbacks	nummod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 nine	nmod
39	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 destroyed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 destroyed	cc
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 destroyed	advmod
43	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pronounced	conj
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 chance	nmod:poss
45	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 destroyed	obj
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 marrying	mark
47	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 chance	acl
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 marrying	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Rishi	Rishi's bride			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus
2	discontent	past · passive		Rishi			tree rules
3	hear	past	Rishi				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	bride's elder and fairer sisters not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	refuse	past	bride's elder and fairer sisters	Rishi		all property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	pronounce	past	Rishi	a curse			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme
7	make	past	a curse	all nine humpbacks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset humpback=Product
8	destroy	past	Rishi not said here	elder's chance			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
9	marry	gerund	elder's chance not said here		all		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
10	chance		elder				nom chance «state 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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