Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 32

He washed it clean and placed it in the midst of sweet-smelling flowers.

Who acts: man · What happens: wash, place, smell · To what, where: image, midst

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:653): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 washed	nsubj
2	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 washed	obj
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 washed	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 placed	cc
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 placed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 midst	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 midst	det
10	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 smelling	advmod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 smelling	punct
14	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 flowers	amod
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 midst	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wash	past	man	image		clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	place	past	man not said here	image	the midst of smelling flowers		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in midst=Destination
3	smell	gerund					vn smell_emission-43.3 «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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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