Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 60
She looked into the coffin; there lay ever so much money.
Who acts: cross · What happens: look, lay · To what, where: much money
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 (cross), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 coffin | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffin | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 lay | expl |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 much | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 money | amod |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | cross | into the coffin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into coffin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | much money | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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