Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 70
He picked up the coffin-lid and remained standing beside his cart, waiting to see what would happen.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: pick up, remain, stand, wait, see, happen · To what, where: coffin lid, cart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), 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 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lid | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lid | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 coffin | punct |
| 7 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remained | cc |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 cart | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 standing | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waiting | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happen | aux |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | moujik | the coffin lid | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | moujik not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | moujik not said here | moujik's cart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside cart=Location | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | moujik not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | moujik not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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