Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 72

I'd rather die an old maid, I'd sooner be linked with the devil, than marry that man!"

Who acts: I · What happens: die, link, marry · To what, where: old maid, I, man

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maid	amod
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 linked	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 linked	nsubj:pass
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 linked	aux
11	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 linked	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 linked	aux:pass
13	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 die	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 devil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 devil	det
16	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 linked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	conj
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	would	I	a old maid		tree rules
2	link	would · passive		I	with the devil; soon property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with devil=Co-Patient
3	marry	infinitive	I not said here	that man		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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