Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 142
Then she returned home, bought a coffin, lay down in it, and straightway expired.
Who acts: road, straightway · What happens: return, buy, lay down, expire · To what, where: coffin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (road, straightway), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bought | punct |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coffin | det |
| 8 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bought | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 expired | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 expired | cc |
| 16 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expired | nsubj |
| 17 | expired | expire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 returned | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | road | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | past | road not said here | a coffin | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | road not said here | coffin | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | expire | participle | straightway | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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.
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