Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 151

The Princess died; they placed her in a coffin, and carried it to church.

Who acts: Princess, rounds · What happens: die, place, carry · To what, where: princess, coffin, psalter, church

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Princess, rounds), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 placed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 coffin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coffin	det
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carried	cc
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 church	case
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die	past	the Princess			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	place	past	rounds = round	princess	a coffin	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in coffin=Destination
3	carry	past	the Princess not said here	psalter	church	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to church=Destination

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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