Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 5
The one he buried in his corn-kiln, the other under the gate of his farmyard.
Who acts: one · What happens: bury · To what, where: corn kiln
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buried | nsubj |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kiln | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kiln | nmod:poss |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kiln | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 corn | punct |
| 9 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 other | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kiln | amod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 other | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 farmyard | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 farmyard | nmod:poss |
| 18 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gate | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | the one | moujik's corn kiln | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in kiln=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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