Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 45

Sometimes the quaint lyric drama of a peasant wedding is performed before our eyes, sometimes we follow a funeral party to one of those dismal and desolate nooks in which the Russian villagers deposit their dead.

Who acts: we, Russian villagers · What happens: perform, follow, desolate, deposit · To what, where: quaint lyric drama, funeral party, one, nooks, dead

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Russian villagers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 performed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drama	det
3	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drama	amod
4	lyric	lyric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drama	amod
5	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 performed	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
8	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wedding	amod
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drama	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 performed	aux:pass
11	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 performed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 follow	punct
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 follow	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 follow	nsubj
18	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 performed	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 party	det
20	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 party	compound
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 follow	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 follow	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 those	case
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 one	nmod
26	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 those	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 desolate	cc
28	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 follow	conj
29	nooks	nook	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 desolate	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 deposit	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 villagers	det
33	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 villagers	amod
34	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 deposit	nsubj
35	deposit	deposit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nooks	acl:relcl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 dead	nmod:poss
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 deposit	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 performed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	present · passive		the quaint lyric drama of a peasant wedding			before our eyes	sometimes property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	follow	present	we	a funeral party	one of those			sometimes property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent party=Theme to one=Trajectory
3	desolate	infinitive	we not said here	nooks					tree rules
4	deposit	present	the Russian villagers	villagers's dead		nooks			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme in which=Destination

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 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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