Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 69
There lay the witch stretched out flat on the road!
What happens: lie, stretch out · To what, where: witch, road
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 witch | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 5 stretched | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the witch | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | the witch not said here | the road | flat property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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