Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 46
There's nobody left to lay out or to bury.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: be, leave, lay out, bury
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lay | mark |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 lay | compound:prt |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 bury | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bury | mark |
| 10 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lay | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | nobody | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay out | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bury | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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