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title: The Soldier picked her up, put her in the coffin, slammed the lid do… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Soldier picked her up, put her in the coffin, slammed the lid down, and drove her to the graveyard. Who acts: Soldier. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 70

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The Soldier picked her up, put her in the coffin, slammed the lid down, and drove her to the graveyard.

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**Who acts:** Soldier · **What happens:** pick up, put, slam down, drive · **To what, where:** witch, coffin, lid, graveyard

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:48:70
# text = The Soldier picked her up, put her in the coffin, slammed the lid down, and drove her to the graveyard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	slammed	slam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | the Soldier | witch |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* | witch |  | the coffin |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in coffin=Destination |
| 3 | **slam down** | past | the Soldier *not said here* | the lid |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** | past | the Soldier *not said here* | witch |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to graveyard=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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