Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 128

The Soldier got down from the stove, laid her body in the coffin, covered it up all right with the lid, and betook himself again to his psalter.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: get down, lay, cover up, betake · To what, where: stove, body, coffin, SOLDIER

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stove	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stove	det
7	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 coffin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coffin	det
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
16	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 covered	compound:prt
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 right	advmod
20	right	right	ADV	_	23 lid	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 lid	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lid	det
23	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 betook	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 betook	cc
26	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 betook	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 betook	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 psalter	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 psalter	nmod:poss
31	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 betook	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past	the Soldier		the stove		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	lay	past	the Soldier not said here	witch's body	the coffin			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in coffin=Destination
3	cover up	past		body			with the lid	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with lid=Theme
4	betake	past	the Soldier not said here	SOLDIER		again	to SOLDIER's psalter	tree rules

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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