Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 14
"I had an only son, but his mother cursed him in a passion, crying, 'The devil take thee!'
Who acts: merchant, mother, devil · What happens: have, curse, cry, take · To what, where: only son, youth, passion, thee
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 (merchant, mother, devil), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cursed | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cursed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 cursed | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cursed | nsubj |
| 11 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cursed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 passion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 passion | det |
| 15 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cursed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cursed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 devil | det |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | nsubj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cursed | parataxis |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | the merchant = merchant | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | curse in a quote | past | youth's mother | youth | a passion | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | youth's mother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | the devil | thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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