--- title: But some lazy harvest-women having cursed "God's corn," the Lord wax… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But some lazy harvest-women having cursed "God's corn," the Lord waxed wroth and began to strip the ears from the stem. Who acts: Lord. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/) / 35 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 35 But some lazy harvest-women having cursed "God's corn," the Lord waxed wroth and began to strip the ears from the stem. **Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** curse, wax, begin, strip · **To what, where:** lazy harvest women, ears, stem This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:56:35 # text = But some lazy harvest-women having cursed "God's corn," the Lord waxed wroth and began to strip the ears from the stem. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 3 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 aux _ _ 8 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 waxed wax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 strip strip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curse** | gerund · perfect · passive | | some lazy harvest women | | | | God's corn *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **wax** | past | the Lord | | | | | wroth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | the Lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **strip** | to-infinitive | the Lord *not said here* | the ears | | the stem | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ear=Theme from stem=Source | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/36/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/)