Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 84
The moujik cut off the left skirt of the shroud, and gave up the coffin-lid.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: cut off, give up · To what, where: left skirt, coffin lid
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 skirt | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skirt | det |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skirt | amod |
| 7 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shroud | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shroud | det |
| 10 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skirt | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 gave | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lid | det |
| 16 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lid | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 coffin | punct |
| 18 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | the moujik | the left skirt of the shroud | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector skirt=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the moujik not said here | the coffin lid | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Source |
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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