Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 82

Then the cocks crowed and he could not lock it down properly: one corner of the coffin lid would perk upwards.

Who acts: cocks, man, one corner · What happens: crow, not lock down, perk · To what, where: lid

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 (cocks, man, one corner), 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 crowed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cocks	det
3	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowed	nsubj
4	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lock	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lock	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lock	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lock	advmod
9	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crowed	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lock	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 lock	compound:prt
12	properly	properly	ADV	_	9 lock	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 corner	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 corner	nummod
15	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 perk	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 lid	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lid	det
18	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lid	compound
19	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 corner	nmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 perk	aux
21	perk	perk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crowed	ccomp
22	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	21 perk	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	the cocks		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not lock down	could	man	lid		properly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	perk	would	one corner of the coffin lid			upwards property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 82