Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 70
The Soldier picked her up, put her in the coffin, slammed the lid down, and drove her to the graveyard.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: pick up, put, slam down, drive · To what, where: witch, coffin, lid, graveyard
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 picked | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 coffin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coffin | det |
| 11 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slammed | punct |
| 13 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lid | det |
| 15 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slammed | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 slammed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drove | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drove | cc |
| 19 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drove | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 graveyard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 graveyard | det |
| 23 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drove | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the Soldier | witch | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the Soldier not said here | witch | the coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in coffin=Destination | |||
| 3 | slam down | past | the Soldier not said here | the lid | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | the Soldier not said here | witch | the graveyard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to graveyard=Trajectory |
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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