Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
So the peasant cut off the left lappet from the shroud and gave him back the coffin lid.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: cut off, give back · To what, where: left lappet, coffin lid, corpse
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 (peasant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 lappet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lappet | det |
| 7 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lappet | amod |
| 8 | lappet | lappet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 shroud | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shroud | det |
| 11 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lappet | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 gave | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lid | det |
| 17 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lid | compound |
| 18 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | the peasant | the left lappet from the shroud | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lappet=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give back | past | the peasant not said here | the coffin lid | corpse | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lid=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/80/