Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 40
His sons removed her body, and next evening, in obedience to his paternal behest, they sent another of his daughters-in-law to keep watch.
Who acts: sons · What happens: remove, send, keep · To what, where: body, obedience, another, watch
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 (sons), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 evening | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 evening | cc |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 evening | amod |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obedience | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 obedience | case |
| 12 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 removed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 behest | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 behest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | paternal | paternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 behest | amod |
| 16 | behest | behest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obedience | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 removed | conj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sent | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 daughters | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 another | nmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 law | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughters | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 keep | mark |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 30 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | couple's sons | body's body | obedience to couple's paternal behest | evening | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||
| 2 | send | past | sons = son | another | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
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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