Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 39
He strangled her, and then lay down again in his coffin.
Who acts: couple · What happens: strangle, lay down · To what, where: body, coffin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strangled | nsubj |
| 2 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strangled | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strangled | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 lay | compound:prt |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coffin | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strangle | past | couple | body | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | couple not said here | couple's coffin | then; again | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in coffin=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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