Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 66

There stands an oak, and under the oak is a casket, and in the casket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg, and in the egg is my death."

What happens: stand, be · To what, where: oak, casket, hare, duck, egg, death

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stands	expl
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 oak	det
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 casket	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 casket	cc
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 oak	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oak	det
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 casket	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 casket	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 casket	det
12	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hare	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hare	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 casket	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 casket	det
17	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hare	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hare	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hare	det
20	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 duck	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 duck	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hare	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 duck	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 duck	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 duck	det
28	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 egg	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 egg	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 duck	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 duck	det
33	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 egg	obl
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 egg	cop
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 egg	det
36	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 duck	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 death	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 death	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 egg	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 egg	det
41	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 death	nmod
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 death	cop
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 death	nmod:poss
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 duck	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a oak	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus
2	is a	present	a casket	the oak		tree rules
3	is a	present	a hare	the casket		tree rules
4	is a	present	a duck and a egg and my death		in the hare	tree rules
5	is a	present	a egg		in the duck	tree rules
6	is a	present	my death	the egg		tree rules

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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