Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 69

No bride is to be seen; only in the corners sit the puppets singing away to themselves."

Who acts: corners, puppets · What happens: see, sit, sing away · To what, where: bride, puppets, brother

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: who acts (corners, puppets), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 corners	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corners	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corners	det
11	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 puppets	det
14	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	obj
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 puppets	acl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 singing	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 singing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		no bride			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	sit	present	the corners	the puppets			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location puppet=Theme
3	sing away speech: express	gerund	the puppets not said here		brother	away property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient

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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