Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 144
Her body was passed underneath the threshold and buried at a crossway.
What happens: pass, bury · To what, where: body, threshold, crossway
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 7 threshold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 threshold | det |
| 7 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 crossway | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crossway | det |
| 12 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | road's body | the threshold | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme underneath threshold=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | a crossway | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at crossway=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/144/