Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 138

My first and faithful wife goes a-seeking her husband throughout the wide world, while my accursed second wife, Empress though she be, sells her husband for three apples!"

Who acts: first wife · What happens: go, seek, accurs, sell · To what, where: seeking husband, husband

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first wife), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wife	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 faithful	cc
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 first	conj
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 husband	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 husband	amod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obj
12	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 husband	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Empress	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 Empress	mark
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
19	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wife	amod
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 wife	amod
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Empress	compound
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wife	punct
23	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 be	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 be	nsubj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 Empress	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sells	punct
28	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goes	parataxis
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sells	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 apples	case
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 apples	nummod
33	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sells	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 sells	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	My first wife	woman's seeking husband	throughout the wide world	wife Empress obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location husband=Theme
2	seek	gerund					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	accurs	participle					tree rules
4	sell	present		woman's husband		for three apples	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for apple=Asset

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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