Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 178

Round the house were set twelve poles in a circle, and on each of eleven of these poles was stuck a human head, the twelfth alone remained unoccupied.

Who acts: eleven, stuck · What happens: set, be, remain · To what, where: twelve poles, circle

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, stuck), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux:pass
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 poles	nummod
7	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 circle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 circle	det
10	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stuck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stuck	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 eleven	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 eleven	case
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 stuck	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 poles	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 poles	det
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eleven	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stuck	cop
21	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 remained	nsubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 head	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 head	amod
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stuck	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 twelfth	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 twelfth	det
27	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stuck	conj
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 twelfth	advmod
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
30	unoccupied	unoccupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 remained	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		twelve poles	a circle	round the house	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: pole=Theme in circle=Destination
2	is	past	eleven of this poles			stuck property	tree rules
3	remain	past	stuck and the twelfth			unoccupied property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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