Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 71
When he got there he lowered the coffin into the grave, shovelled the earth on top of it, and returned to the merchant's house.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: get, lower, shovell, return · To what, where: coffin, grave, earth, top
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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lowered | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lowered | nsubj |
| 6 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coffin | det |
| 8 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lowered | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 grave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grave | det |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lowered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shovelled | punct |
| 13 | shovelled | shovell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lowered | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shovelled | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 top | case |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earth | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 returned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 returned | cc |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lowered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 merchant | det |
| 25 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 merchant | case |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Soldier | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lower | past | Soldier | the coffin | the grave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme into grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | shovell | past | Soldier not said here | the earth | top of coffin | tree rules | |||
| 4 | return | past | Soldier not said here | to the merchant's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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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