Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 53
They fastened the hoops, set the coffin on the funeral car, and cried--
Who acts: relations · What happens: fasten, set, cry · To what, where: hoops, coffin, funeral car
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fastened | nsubj |
| 2 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hoops | det |
| 4 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fastened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fastened | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coffin | det |
| 8 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 car | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 car | det |
| 11 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 car | compound |
| 12 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fastened | parataxis |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | relations = relation | the hoops | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | relations = relation not said here | the coffin | the funeral car | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme on car=Destination | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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