Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 64

Nothing was to be seen but the old woman's bones under the bench--and those picked so clean!

What happens: see, pick · To what, where: Nothing

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 seen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 seen	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 bones	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 woman	case
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	conj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 bench	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bench	det
14	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 those	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 those	cc
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 seen	obj
18	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 those	acl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 clean	advmod
20	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 picked	xcomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		Nothing					tree rules
2	pick	participle						clean property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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