Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 87
One end of the coffin-lid remained sticking out of the ground.
What happens: remain, stick out · To what, where: One end, ground
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 end | nummod |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lid | case |
| 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 | 8 remained | obl |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 remained | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sticking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | One end | of the coffin lid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick out | gerund | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=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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