Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 87
In a trice there were found good folks to dig the grave and fashion the coffin.
What happens: find, dig, fashion · To what, where: good folks, trice, grave, coffin
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:417): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 trice | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trice | det |
| 3 | trice | trice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 found | expl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 folks | amod |
| 8 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dig | mark |
| 10 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 folks | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dig | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fashion | cc |
| 14 | fashion | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dig | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coffin | det |
| 16 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fashion | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | good folks | a trice; there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dig | to-infinitive | the grave | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fashion | infinitive | the coffin | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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