Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, with his white shroud on; got out and ran up to the church door, laid the coffin lid at the gate and himself went into the village.
Who acts: grave, corpse, Iván · What happens: open, get out, run up, lay, go · To what, where: coffin lid, gate, village
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (grave, corpse, Iván), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corpse | det |
| 7 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 lid | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lid | det |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lid | compound |
| 11 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corpse | nmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shroud | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 shroud | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shroud | nmod:poss |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shroud | amod |
| 18 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shroud | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ran | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 door | compound |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 laid | punct |
| 31 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lid | det |
| 33 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lid | compound |
| 34 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laid | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 gate | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gate | det |
| 37 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laid | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 went | cc |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 laid | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 village | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 village | det |
| 43 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 went | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the grave | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | the corpse with the coffin lid | with Iván's white shroud | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get out | past | the grave not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run up | past | the grave not said here | to the church door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 5 | lay | past | the grave not said here | the coffin lid | the gate | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme at gate=Destination | |||
| 6 | go | past | Iván | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into village=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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