Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 46
At ten o'clock the relations of the deceased will begin taking leave of her; and afterwards they will fasten three iron hoops round the coffin, and place it on the funeral car; and at eleven o'clock they will tell you to take it to the graveyard.
Who acts: relations, leave · What happens: decease, begin, take, fasten, place, tell · To what, where: relations, ten o'clock, leave, three iron hoops, funeral car, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (relations, leave), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o'clock | case |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begin | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 relations | det |
| 5 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 begin | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 deceased | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 deceased | det |
| 8 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 relations | acl |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 begin | aux |
| 10 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 begin | xcomp |
| 12 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fasten | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fasten | cc |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 20 fasten | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fasten | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fasten | aux |
| 20 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begin | conj |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hoops | nummod |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hoops | compound |
| 23 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fasten | obj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 coffin | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coffin | det |
| 26 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fasten | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 place | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 place | cc |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begin | obl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 place | nsubj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 car | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 car | det |
| 33 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 car | compound |
| 34 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 place | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 tell | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tell | cc |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 o'clock | case |
| 38 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 o'clock | nummod |
| 39 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | obl |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 tell | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 tell | aux |
| 42 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begin | conj |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 tell | iobj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 take | mark |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 tell | ccomp |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 take | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 graveyard | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 graveyard | det |
| 49 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | participle | the relations not said here | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | begin | future | the relations | ten o'clock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the relations not said here | leave of witch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fasten | future | relations = relation | three iron hoops | round the coffin; afterwards property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Patient | |||
| 5 | place | leave | the funeral car | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | future | relations = relation | you | eleven o'clock | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | leave | the graveyard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to graveyard=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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