Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 55

Its flesh is cut up into small pieces and sold, the money paid for it going to the church.

Who acts: flesh · What happens: cut up, sell, pay, go · To what, where: flesh, small pieces, money, church

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (flesh), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 flesh	nmod:poss
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pieces	amod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sold	cc
10	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cut	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 money	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	parataxis
14	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 money	acl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 paid	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 church	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cut up	present · passive		expense's flesh	small pieces	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into piece=Product
2	sell	participle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	pay	participle		the money not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	gerund	flesh		the church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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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