Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 68
But his wife stayed at home and put everything to rights again, railing and scolding at her husband as a madman.
Who acts: wife · What happens: stay, put, rail, scold · To what, where: home, everything
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stayed | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stayed | conj |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rights | case |
| 11 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 railing | punct |
| 14 | railing | rail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scolding | cc |
| 16 | scolding | scold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 railing | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scolding | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 madman | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 madman | det |
| 22 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scolding | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | man's wife | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | man's wife not said here | everything | again | to rights | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent everything=Goal | ||
| 3 | rail | gerund | man's wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | scold | gerund | man's wife not said here | at wife's husband; as a madman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as madman=Attribute |
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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