Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 176

The old woman lifted the mat, undid the blanket, and found the girls both dead.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: lift, undo, find · To what, where: mat, blanket, girls

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mat	det
6	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 undid	punct
8	undid	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blanket	det
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 undid	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girls	det
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obj
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 dead	advmod
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lift	past	the old woman	the mat	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Theme
2	undo	past	the old woman not said here	the blanket	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient
3	find	past	the old woman not said here	the girls	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic

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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