Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 100
“The other cooks were jealous of your rewarding me, and so they have deliberately contrived the plot.”
Who acts: other cooks, your, TSARÉVICH · What happens: be, reward, contrive · To what, where: Tsarévich, plot
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other cooks, your, TSARÉVICH), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cooks | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cooks | amod |
| 4 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jealous | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | cop |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 rewarding | mark |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rewarding | nsubj |
| 9 | rewarding | reward | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 jealous | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 rewarding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 contrived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 contrived | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 contrived | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 contrived | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 contrived | aux |
| 16 | deliberately | deliberately | ADV | _ | 17 contrived | advmod |
| 17 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 jealous | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plot | det |
| 19 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contrived | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the other cooks | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reward in a quote | gerund | your | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | contrive in a quote | present · perfect | TSARÉVICH = tsarévich | the plot | deliberately property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Result |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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