Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 25
She refuses to survive him, and is buried by his side.
Who acts: spirit, side · What happens: refuse, not survive, bury · To what, where: knowledge
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, side), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 refuses | nsubj |
| 2 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 survive | mark |
| 4 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refuses | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 survive | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 buried | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | aux:pass |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 refuses | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refuses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | spirit | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not survive | to-infinitive | spirit not said here | knowledge | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | bury | present · passive | knowledge's side | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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