Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 26
When he had put it out he set every thing to rights, placed the merchant's daughter in her coffin, covered it up with the lid, and betook himself to reading the psalter.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: put out, set, place, cover up, betake, read · To what, where: fire, thing, daughter, coffin, Soldier, psalter
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 set | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rights | case |
| 12 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchant | det |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 coffin | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 placed | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 covered | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 covered | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 lid | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lid | det |
| 28 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 betook | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 betook | cc |
| 31 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 betook | obj |
| 33 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 34 reading | mark |
| 34 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 betook | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 psalter | det |
| 36 | psalter | psalter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reading | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past · perfect | Soldier | fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Soldier | every thing | to rights | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result | |||
| 3 | place | past | Soldier not said here | the merchant's daughter | witch's coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in coffin=Destination | |||
| 4 | cover up | past | Soldier not said here | fire | with the lid | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with lid=Theme | |||
| 5 | betake | past | Soldier not said here | Soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | read | gerund | Soldier not said here | the psalter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=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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