Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 143

Well, they told the priest, and he buried, first her father and mother, and then Marusia herself.

Who acts: people, straightway · What happens: tell, bury · To what, where: priest, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 buried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 buried	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	nsubj
10	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 father	advmod
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buried	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 herself	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 herself	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 herself	advmod
20	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 herself	nsubj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 told	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	people		the priest				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient
2	bury	past	straightway	road's father and mother					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

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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