Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 59

A certain Catalonian was so much annoyed one day "by the continued and inappeasable crying of his little daughter, that he commended her to the demons."

Who acts: certain Catalonian, youth · What happens: be, continue, commend, cry · To what, where: story, little daughter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain Catalonian, youth), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Catalonian	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Catalonian	amod
3	Catalonian	Catalonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 annoyed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 annoyed	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 annoyed	advmod
7	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 annoyed	obl:unmarked
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 annoyed	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	16 crying	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crying	det
13	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 crying	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 inappeasable	cc
15	inappeasable	inappeasable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crying	amod
16	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 annoyed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 daughter	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 daughter	amod
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crying	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 commended	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 commended	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 commended	nsubj
24	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 annoyed	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 commended	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 demons	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 demons	det
28	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 commended	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 annoyed	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a certain Catalonian		day	by the continued inappeasable crying of youth's little daughter; annoyed property	tree rules
2	continue in a quote	participle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	commend in a quote	past	youth	story		to the demons	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	cry in a quote			youth's little daughter			nom crying «act transitive»: of=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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