Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 45
The false wife was angry with him for taking the child into the fields where it must be much too cold.
Who acts: false wife, field · What happens: be, take · To what, where: child, fields
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false wife, field), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | obl |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 taking | mark |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 angry | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fields | det |
| 14 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taking | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 cold | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cold | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cold | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cold | cop |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 cold | advmod |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 cold | advmod |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fields | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the false wife | with boy; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the false wife not said here | the child | the fields | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into field=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | must | field | cold property | tree rules |
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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