Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 25
[Next morning Vasilissa "buried the skull," locked up the house and took up her quarters in a neighboring town.
What happens: bury, lock up, take up, neighbor · To what, where: skull, house, quarters, neighboring town
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
| 2 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obl |
| 4 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Vasilissa | punct |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skull | det |
| 8 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 locked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 locked | punct |
| 11 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 buried | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 locked | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 locked | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 locked | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 19 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 town | amod |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury in a quote | past | the skull | morning | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | the house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take up | past | Vasilissa's quarters | a neighboring town | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent quarter=Value in town=Location | ||||
| 4 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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