Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 85

They wept and wailed over him, and laid him in the coffin.

Who acts: games · What happens: weep, wail, lay · To what, where: father, 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 (games), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wailed	cc
4	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wailed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laid	cc
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 coffin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coffin	det
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	games = game				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wail	past	games = game not said here			over father	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location
3	lay	past	games = game not said here	father	the coffin		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in coffin=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.

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