Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 74

The fence around it was made of dead men's bones; on the top of the fence were stuck human skulls with eyes in them; instead of uprights at the gates were men's legs; instead of bolts were arms; instead of a lock was a mouth with sharp teeth.

Who acts: top, uprights · What happens: make, be · To what, where: fence, stuck human skulls, arms, mouth

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top, uprights), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fence	det
2	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fence	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 bones	case
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bones	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 men	case
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 top	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 skulls	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fence	det
18	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 skulls	cop
20	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 skulls	amod
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 skulls	amod
22	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	parataxis
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 skulls	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 uprights	punct
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 uprights	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	uprights	upright	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 men	nsubj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 gates	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gates	det
33	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 uprights	nmod
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 men	cop
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 legs	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 men	case
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 skulls	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 arms	punct
39	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	41 bolts	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 instead	fixed
41	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 arms	obl
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 arms	cop
43	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 mouth	punct
45	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	48 lock	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	45 instead	fixed
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 lock	det
48	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 mouth	obl
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 mouth	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 mouth	det
51	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 teeth	case
53	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 teeth	amod
54	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 mouth	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the fence around harm	of dead men's bones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is a	past	the top of the fence	stuck human skulls	with eyes in eyes; men's legs nmod	tree rules
3	is	past	uprights at the gates		's men	tree rules
4	is a	past		arms	instead bolts	tree rules
5	is a	past		a mouth	instead a lock; with sharp teeth	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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